Chapter 4 – The Age of Industrialisation

In many industries where production fluctuated with the season, industrialists, usually preferred:

Machines were oriented to produce:

In mid-nineteenth century in Britain; 500 varieties of ……………………… were produced and 45 kinds of ………………………

The upper classes the aristocrats and the bourgeoisie preferred things produced by:

After the busy season was over, the poor :

In the early nineteenth century wages:

When the ……………………… was introduced in the woollen industry, women who survived on hand spinning began attacking the new machine.

Coarser cottons were produced in many countries, but the fine varieties often came from:

Masulipatam on the Coromandel coast and Hoogly in Bengal had trade links with:

The French, Dutch, Portuguese as well as the local traders competed in the market:

The company appointed a paid servant to supervise weavers. He was called:

The first cotton mill in Bombay came up in :

The history of many business groups goes back to trade with:

The Marwari businessman who set up the first Indian jute mill in Calcutta in 1917 was:

Advertisements of Indian manufacturers became a vehicle of the nationalist message of:

E.T. Pauli produced a music book that had a picture on the cover page announcing the:

Most historians refer to the phase of industrialisation as:

In the countryside poor peasants and artisans began working:

Merchants were based in towns but the work was done mostly:

A merchant clothier in England, purchased wool from a wool stapler and:

The finishing of the cloth was done in ……………………… before the export merchants sold the cloth in the international market.

The proto-industrial system was a part of a network of:

The earliest factories in England came up by the:

In the early nineteenth century, ……………………… increasingly became an intimate part of the English landscape.

The most dynamic industries in Britain were clearly:

With the expansion of railways, in England the demand for:

The Spinning Jenny was devised by:

The steam engine produced by Newcomen was patented with a new engine by:

At the beginning of the nineteenth century, there were no more than ……………………… steam engines.

In 19th century Britain there was: