Social Science- History- The Age of Industrialisation Set 1

Gunpowder, cannons and other ammunition. ✘ Jute bags, cloth for army uniforms, tents and leather boots. ✘ Medicines for the wounded soldiers. ✘ Hammers, axes and other building material. ✔

Paid higher prices for their products. ✘ Bought them off as slaves. ✘ Offered them loans for their production. ✘ Imposed extra tarrif to discourage them to deal with other foreigners. ✔

Food processing ✘ Leather goods production ✘ Cotton and metal industries ✘ Electronic goods production ✔

Raw cotton exports increased. ✘ The cotton crop perished. ✘ Local markets shrank. ✘ Export market collapsed. ✔

They were recruited through tests/ examinations. ✘ Selection boards used to be set up. ✘ Owners employed through jobbers (very often the jobber was an old trustworthy worker). ✘ Family members of the owners were recruited. ✔

Dwarkanath Tagore of Bengal ✘ Seth Hukumchand of Calcutta ✘ Bhai Bhosle of Bombay ✘ Dinshaw Petit and Jamsetjee . Nusserwanjee-Parsis of Bombay. ✔

Indian merchants ✘ European companies ✘ The East India Company ✘ British Parliament. ✔

Persia ✘ India ✘ China ✘ Surinam ✔

Construction of big business houses. ✘ Construction of mills and factories. ✘ Construction of railway lines, railway stations and digging up of tunnels. ✘ Construction of cinema halls for entertainment. ✔

There was abundance of labour, so wages were low. ✘ Hand labour produced uniform and standardised goods for a mass market. ✘ Machines required huge capital investment. ✘ Industries, where demand was seasonal, industrialists preferred hand labour. ✔