Q.1. How did the European trading companies purchase cotton and silk textiles in India.
Q.2. How did Indian cotton factories prove to be helpful during the First World War?
Q.3. During which period patola weaving was famous?
Q.4. Why were bellows used?
Q.5. What did Mahatma Gandhi urge people during national movement?
Q.6. When and where was the first cotton mill set up in India?
Q.7. What were piece goods?
Q.8. What is Jamdani?
Q.9. Why were Indian textiles renowned in the world?
Q.10. What were the most important centres of jamdani weaving?
Q.11. Name the place where chintz was produced during the mid- nineteenth century?
Q.12. What made Britain the foremost industrial nation in the nineteenth century?
Q.13. Why were printed Indian cotton textiles popular in England?
Q.14. Write a short note on Patola weave.
Q.15. Name two towns emerged as important new centres of weaving in the late nineteenth century.
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