The First World War broke out in 1914. The world war consumed all the steel produced in Britain. Hence the imports of steel produced in Britain... View Article
Due to the imposition of very high duties on textiles imported into Britain, India found it very difficult to export textiles to England.... View Article
The Paleolithic Age, also known as the ‘Old Stone Age’, is a period in human history characterised by the widespread use of stone tools. For... View Article
The craft of iron smelting was in decline by the late nineteenth century. Agarias was a community of iron smelters who lived in Central India. A... View Article
Till the end of the eighteenth century the world trade was dominated by Indian textiles. Worried by the popularity of Indian textiles, silk and... View Article
In Europe and England, from the 1860s, there began a craze for printed Indian cotton textiles. These textiles were popular for their relative... View Article
Bandanna is a bright coloured cloth produced through a method of dying and tying. Bandanna was derived from the word bandhna which means tying... View Article
Answers: a)Chhint b)Wootz c)Nineteenth Century Bandanna, Khassa (Cossaes), Chintz were popular in European markets as they were ordered in... View Article
They were a community of iron smelters who lived in Central India. A series of famines devastated the dry tracts of India in the late nineteenth... View Article
Bandanna is a bright coloured cloth produced through a method of dying and tying. Bandanna was derived from the word bandhna which means tying... View Article
A fine muslin on which decorative motifs are woven using a loom is known as Jamdani. The decorative motifs were usually in white and grey.... View Article
Bandanna, Khassa (Cossaes), Chintz were popular in European markets as they were ordered in bulk. One could find the list from an order book of... View Article
By the end of 1859, the British managed to regain control of the country, but the British realised they could continue ruling India with the same... View Article
British told them that if they had not killed any white people, then their rights over their lands would not be denied, their rights would be... View Article
Major part of India was under the control of Mughal dynasty. On behalf of the Mughal ruler, majority of the smaller chieftains and rulers had... View Article
Over a hundred years of British rule, the soldiers, tribals, landlords, peasants, queens and kings were affected in different ways. There was... View Article
Bahadur Shah Zafar  was the last Mughal emperor, was tried in court and given life imprisonment. In October 1858, Bahadur Shah Zafar was... View Article
In Barrackpore, a young soldier, Mangal Pandey, had attacked his officers on 8th April 1857. As a result he was hanged to death. Few days later... View Article
