History Practice Quiz 64
10 questions · 12 minutes
Q1.When was the first cotton mill established in Bombay?
Q2.The Elgin Mill, established in the 1860s, was located in which city in north India?
Q3.From which trade did Dwarkanath Tagore initially accumulate his fortune before investing in industries?
Q4.Parsi industrialists like Dinshaw Petit and Jamsetjee Nusserwanjee Tata accumulated their initial wealth from which two primary sources?
Q5.Which Marwari businessman set up the first Indian jute mill in Calcutta in 1917?
Q6.What forced Jamsetjee Jeejeebhoy to sell his fleet of ships by the 1850s?
Q7.Dwarkanath Tagore believed that India's development would primarily occur through which two processes?
Q8.In the late eighteenth century, the British in India primarily exported which commodity to China?
Q9.As colonial control over Indian trade tightened, what restriction was imposed on Indian merchants regarding trade with Europe?
Q10.Which of the following was NOT one of the three biggest European Managing Agencies that controlled a large sector of Indian industries till the First World War?