CBSE Class 10 Social Science Competency Based Questions The age of Industrialisation available here. We have included total 3 set of passage. Each passage has 3 questions. Students who are going to prepare their Board exam please Read the passage below and answer the following questions.
The age of Industrialisation Class 10 Competency Based Questions
1) Read the passage below and answer the following questions:
The earliest factories in England came up by the 1730s. But it was only in the late eighteenth century that the number of factories multiplied. Cotton production boomed in the late nineteenth century. In 1760 Britain was importing 2.5 million pounds of raw cotton to feed its cotton industry. By 1787 this import soared to 22 million pounds.This increase was linked to several changes within the process of production.
1.) The phase of proto industrialisation was controlled by-
a) Farmers
b) Merchants
c) Sailors
d) Government
2.) The cotton Mill was created by whom?
a) Wright brothers
b) Richard Wright
c) Richard Arkwright
d) None of the above
3) What are the features of proto industrialisation period?
Proto industrialisation is the period before the establishment of factories. But during this period industrial production took place for an international market. It was a part of commercial exchange controlled by Merchants. Goods were produced by large number of producers working withing their family farms and not in factories.
2) Read the passage below and answer the following questions:
Before the age of machine industries, silk and cotton goods from India dominated the international market in textiles. Coarser cottons were produced in many countries, but the finer varieties often came from India.A variety of Indian merchants and bankers were involved in this network of export trade – financing production, carrying goods, and supplying exporters. But by the 1750s this network, controlled by Indian merchants, was breaking down.
1) Which coastal city had trade links with the Southeast Asian ports?
a) Surat on Gujarat coast
b) Masulipatnam on Coromandel coast
c) Hooghly in Bengal
d) Both b and c
2.) Merchants from which country took the goods from Punjab to Afghanistan, eastern Persia, and Central Asia?
a) Egypt
b) Armenia
c) Persia
d) Both b and c
3.) Why the old ports of Surat and Hooghly declined?
With the advent of European companies, the old ports of Surat and Hooghly declined. Europeans secured concessions from local courts and got monopoly rights to trade. As only local merchants traded from the old ports, exports from these fell dramatically and the local bankers got bankrupt.
3) Read the passage below and answer the following questions:
East India Company established its political power in Bengal and Carnatic in 1760s and 1770s, but it had found it difficult to ensure the regular supply of goods for export. As other European companies competed, and weavers and supply merchants could bargain for the best buyer. However, once the East India Company established political power, it could assert a monopoly right to trade. It proceeded to develop a system of management and control that would eliminate competition, control costs, and ensure regular supplies of cotton and silk goods.
1.) Name the other trading company with which East India company had to compete in the market for securing raw materials-
a) Portuguese
b) French
c) Dutch
d) All of the above
2.) Who were gomasthas?
Gomastha was the paid servant appointed by the East India company to eliminate existing traders and brokers connected with the cloth trade. They were responsible for supervising weavers, collecting supplies, and examining the quality of cloth. With this East India Company tried to exercise direct control over the weavers.
3.) What was the issue related to setting up gomastha system?
Gomastha system was new to the weaving community and there were cases of clashes between the weaver and gomastha. The gomasthas were outsiders and they acted arrogantly and punished weavers for delay in supplies. Weavers also lost space to bargain for prices and to sell to different buyers as they were tied by the loans they accepted from the company. Whereas the price received by the them was also very low.
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