Question 1

1. Which of the following activities of the people will not come under handicraft?

Accepted Answer

d) Smelting of iron 2. The oldest industry in India was industry. a) Textile b) Steel c) Electrical d) Fertilizers a) Textile 3. The woollen and leather factories became prominent in a) Bombay b) Ahmadabad c) Kanpur d) Dacca c) Kanpur 4. What was the aim of first Three Five year Plans of India? a) To control population growth b) To reduce illiteracy rate c) To built a strong industrial base d) To

Question 2

1. ………………. was the integral part in the life of the people.

Accepted Answer

crafts
2. Industrial revolution took place in ………………. .
England
3. The Assam Tea Company was founded in ………………. .
1839
4. Jute industry was started in the Hoogly Valley at ………………. near Calcutta.
Rishra
5. ………………. shortened the distance between Europe and India.
Suez canal

Question 3

1. “The birth place of cotton manufacture is India,” told by, ………………..

Accepted Answer

Baines 2. ………………. cloth was used to Preserved Mummies in Egyptian. The Muslin of Dacca 3. ………………. is was identified with muslin cloths. Dacca 4. ………………. was known for tin Industry Bengal 5. The drain of India’s wealth to Britain acknowledge by ……………….. Dadabai Naoroji 6. The period of the 1980s can be considered as the period of the ………………. recovery Industrial 7. The year ………………. where a new era o

Question 4

1. Tavernier 2. Dacca 3. Dadabai Naoroji 4. Ballygunj 5. Smiths e) French traveller

Accepted Answer

1. Tavernier e) French traveller 2. Dacca d) Muslin 3. Dadabai Naoroji a) Drain Theory 4. Ballygunj b) Paper mill 5. Smiths c) Artisan

Question 5

1. India was famous for cotton and silk cloths.

Accepted Answer

True
2. The railway was introduced in India by the British.
True
3. Steel was first manufactured by modem methods at Jamshedpur.
False
4. The Industrial policy of 1948, brought mixed economy in industrial sector.
True
5. The tenth and eleventh five-year plans witnessed a high growth rate of Agricultural production.
False

Question 6

1. Which of the following statements are correct? i) According to Edward Baines, ‘The birthplace of cotton manufacture is in England’. ii) Before mechanised industry handicrafts were the second-largest source of employment in rural India. iii) Saurashtra was known for the tin industry. iv) Construction of the Suez Canal made the British goods cheaper in India,

Accepted Answer

b) ii and iv are correct
2. Assertion (A): Indian handicrafts collapsed under colonial rule.
Reason (R): British made India the producer of raw materials and markets for their finished
products.
a) A is correct R is the correct explanation of A
b) A is correct and R is not the correct explanation of A
c) Both A and R are correct
d) Both A and R is wrong
A is correct R is the correct explanation of A
3. Which one of the following is wrongly matched?
a) Bernier – Shajahan
b) Cotton mill – Ahmadabad
c) TISCO – Jamshedpur
d) Economic Liberalisation – 1980
d) Economic Liberalisation -1980

Question 7

1. What are the traditional handicraft industries of India?

Accepted Answer

The traditional handicrafts industries of India are textiles, woodwork, ivory, stone cutting, leather, fragrance wood, metalwork, and jewellery. The village artisans such as potters, weavers, smiths produced articles and utensils. 2. Write about the drain theory. Dadabai Naoroji was the first to acknowledge that the poverty of the Indian people was due to the British exploitation of India’s resour

Question 8

1. How was the trading policy of the British caused the decline of Indian Industries?

Accepted Answer

The decline of Indian Industries: Loss of Royal Patronage. Transition from producer to exporter of raw materials. Competition of Machine-Made goods. The trading policy of the British. De-industrialization. 2. Write in detail about the plantation industries. Plantation industries: The plantation industry was the first to attract Europeans. This provides jobs on a large scale. In reality, it could m

Question 9

1. How do handicraft products differ from machine-made products?

Accepted Answer

Handicraft:
Something you make with your own hands, especially an ornament or decoration, is a handicraft. Instead, items made by artisans like pottery, handwoven blankets, handmade jewellery, and quilts stitched by hand are all examples of handicrafts.
Machine-made Products:
Machine-made products are produced faster and all are exactly the same. Machine manufacturing is faster and more economical. Also, machine-made goods are cheaper than hand made goods.

Question 10

1. Name the industries in your state and divide them into agro-based metal-based, and forest-based. Agro-based industries:

Accepted Answer

Cotton textile industries, Jute industry, Sugar industries, etc are agro-based industries.
Eg: Coimbatore
Metal-based industries:
Mineral-based industries use both metallic and nonmetallic as raw material. Eg: Chennai.
Forest-based industries: India has a rich diversity of forest resources. The most important industry is the paper industry. Eg: Chennai.

Question 11

1. The established of cotton textile industry ……………. in 1854

Accepted Answer

d) Bombay 2. The first paper mill was started in Ballyguni in the year a) 1870 b) 1871 c) 1872 d) 1950 19478 3. The industrial policy Resolution act introduced in the year a) 1947 b) 1948 c) 1949 d) 1950 b) 1948 4. India has emerged as the ……………. largest produces of electricity in Asia a) First b) Second c) Third d) fourth c) Third 5. Introduction of ……………. plan the most important innovations in t