A. shanti swarup bhatnagar
B. vajpayee
C. jawaharlal nehru
D. sardar patel
✅ The correct answer is option A.
The first steam engine, used for pumping water from mine shafts was invented in 1711 by?
A. William Blake.
B. Matthew Boulton.
C. James Watt.
D. Thomas Newcomen.
✅ The correct answer is option D.
Which of the following statement does not represent nineteenth-century middle-class thinking about gender role?
A. men and women inhabited “separate spheres”.
B. women were suited for longer because their brains were larger.
C. men and women had different social roles.
D. women were morally superior to men because of their “passionlessness”.
✅ The correct answer is option B.
The British “navvies” built:
A. railways.
B. shipyards.
C. factories.
D. hospital and schools.
✅ The correct answer is option A.
342. After the 1850s, who led the invention and commercialization of electricity?
A. Britain.
B. France.
C. Belgium and France.
D. Germany and the United States.
✅ The correct answer is option D.
341. The Great Famine of1845-1849 took place in:
A. France and Belgium.
B. Ireland, Germany, Scotland, and the Netherlands.
C. The United States.
D. All of the above.
✅ The correct answer is option B.
340. By 1817, which country was one of the core nations of industrial Europe?
A. France.
B. Russia.
C. Italy.
D. Germany.
✅ The correct answer is option B.
339. British tariffs prohibiting the importation of East Indian Cottons:
A. acted as a brake on the manufacture of domestic cottons.
B. forced the British to abandon cotton manufacture altogether.
C. served as an inducement to the manufacture of domestic cottons.
D. stimulated the manufacture and sale of woolen goods.
✅ The correct answer is option C.
338. In general European serfdom:
A. was an obstacle to the commercialization of agriculture.
B. disappeared across Eastern Europe and Russia by 1800.
C. provided vast incentives for landowners to improve farming techniques.
D. Both A and B.
✅ The correct answer is option A.
336. John Kay?s invention of the “flying shuttle” in 1773 revolutionized the process of cotton:
A. spinning.
B. weaving.
C. carding.
D. combing.
✅ The correct answer is option B.