Class 10 Social Science Chapter 5 | The Age Of Industrialisation | One Mark Questions

by Manjusha · Published July 20, 2020 · Updated April 25, 2022

Here is an exhaustive collection of one-mark questions that can be asked from the chapter The age of industrialisation.

1. The first jute mill in India was set up in …………………….

Bengal

2. The paid servant appointed by a company to supervise the weavers was called …………………….

Gomastha

3. Industrial revolution first began in …………………..

Britain

4. The year in which the first cotton mill in Bombay was established

1854

5. Who improved the steam engine invented by New Comen?

James Watt

6. Name a pre-colonial port in India

Masulipatanam

7. Where was the first spinning and weaving mill set up in 1874?

Madras

8. With which industry are the processes carding, twisting and rolling associated

Textile industry

9. Who was Dwarkanath Tagore?

Industrialist

10. Who established the six joint stock companies in India between 1830-40?

Dwarkanath Tagore

11. The majority of workers in the cotton industries in Mumbai in 1911 were from ……………………

Ratnagiri

12. Why was the Spinning Jenny attacked by women working in the woollen textile industry?

It caused them unemployment

13. Who were Khostis?

They were a community of weavers in India.

14. The first cotton mill in India was set up in ………………….

Bombay

15. Who set up the first Jute mill in India in Calcutta in 1917?

Seth Humkumchand

16. Who devised the spinning jenny?

James Hargreaves

17. Name the person who established the cotton mill in England

Richard Arkwright

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