CBSE 2023 · Region 5 · Set 1 · Q34

Read the given extract and answer the questions that follow: The first cotton mill in Bombay came up in $\displaystyle 1854$ and it went into production two years later. By $\displaystyle 1862$, four mills were at work with $\displaystyle 94,000$ spindles and $\displaystyle 2,150$ looms. Around the same time, jute mills came up in Bengal, the first being set up in $\displaystyle 1855$ and another one seven years later, in 1862. In north India, the Elgin Mill was started in Kanpur in the 1860s, and a year later the first cotton mill of Ahmedabad was set up. By $\displaystyle 1874$, the first spinning and weaving mill of Madras began production. ($\displaystyle 34.1$) When was the first cotton mill set up in India? ($\displaystyle 34.2$) Name any two early industrialists of India. ($\displaystyle 34.3$) How did many Indian entrepreneurs survive despite tight economic controls imposed by the British Government? Explain.