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Chapter 4 Solutions — The Age of Industrialisation

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Step-by-step NCERT solutions for The Age of Industrialisation (Chapter 4, CBSE Class 10 Social Science) — the full working for every question, not just the final answer. You can also read the The Age of Industrialisation textbook chapter.

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All 6 questions in The Age of Industrialisation are solved in the PDF. Here's what's inside, exercise by exercise:

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Explain the following: a) Women workers in Britain attacked the Spinning Jenny. b) In the seventeenth century merchants from towns in Europe began employing peasants and artisans within the villages. c) The port of Surat declined by the end of the eighteenth century. d) The East India Company appointed gomasthas to supervise weavers in India.
Write True or False against each statement: a) At the end of the nineteenth century, 80 per cent of the total workforce in Europe was employed in the technologically advanced industrial sector. b) The international market for fine textiles was dominated by India till the eighteenth century. c) The American Civil War resulted in the reduction of cotton exports from India. d) The introduction of…
Explain what is meant by proto-industrialisation.

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Why did some industrialists in nineteenth-century Europe prefer hand labour over machines?
How did the East India Company procure regular supplies of cotton and silk textiles from Indian weavers?
Why did industrial production in India increase during the First World War?

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