Question

Identify the years associated with the establishment of first cotton mill and first iron and steel plant in India.

• A. $1874,1917$
• B. $1854,1907$
• C. $1854,1917$
• D. $1860,1912$

Answer 1

Answer: (B)

$1854,1907$

The first Indian cotton mill ‘The Bombay Spinning Mill’ was opened in 1854 in Bombay by Cowasji Nanabhai Davar. In the year 1854, the first cotton textile mill of Mumbai was established by a Parsi cotton merchant.

The first iron and steel plant was established in 1907. It was a momentous day in the history of industrial India in Jamshedpur.