The Age of Industrialisation (Chapter-5)

Why the system of advances proved harmful for the weavers?

‘The Industrial Revolution was a mixed Blessing.’ Explain?

How did the British market expanded their goods in India?

Explain the main features of Proto – Industrialization?

What does the picture indicate on the famous book ‘Dawn of the century’?

What were the problems of Indians weavers at the early 19th century?

Who was a jobber? Explain his functions.

What was the result of First World War on Indian industries?

Why did industrial production in India increase during the First World War?

Imagine that you have been asked to write an article for an encyclopaedia on Britain and the history of cotton. Write your piece using information from the entire chapter.

Explain what is meant by proto-industrialisation.

How did the East India Company procure regular supplies of cotton and silk textiles from Indian weavers?

Write True or False against each statement:

(a) At the end of the nineteenth century, 80 per cent of the total workforce in Europe was employed in the technologically advanced industrial sector.

(b) The international market for fine textiles was dominated by India till the eighteenth century.

(c) The American Civil War resulted in the reduction of cotton exports from India.

(d) The introduction of the fly shuttle enabled handloom workers to improve their productivity.

Why did some industrialists in nineteenth-century Europe prefer hand labour over machines?

Explain the following:

(a) Women workers in Britain attacked the Spinning Jenny.

(b) In the seventeenth century merchants from towns in Europe began employing peasants and artisans within the villages.

(c) The port of Surat declined by the end of the eighteenth century.

(d) The East India Company appointed gomasthas to supervise weavers in India.