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AI-generated practice question — model-generated for extra practice, not a previous-year CBSE board question.

Q1. [1] medium exam-ready
Assertion (A): Indian cotton mills in the early phase focused on producing coarse cotton yarn rather than fabric. Reason (R): Indian mills could not effectively compete with the finely woven cloth imported from Britain, so they concentrated on yarn, which was sold to handloom weavers in India and exported to China.
  1. A Both A and R are true, and R is the correct explanation of A.
  2. B Both A and R are true, but R is not the correct explanation of A.
  3. C A is true but R is false.
  4. D A is false but R is true.
Generated by claude-sonnet-4-6 · 2026-06-26 13:41 · grounding rag
Model Answer

Option A is correct. Both A and R are true, and R is the correct explanation of A. Indian mills produced coarse yarn (not fabric) because they avoided competing with finely woven Manchester cloth; this yarn was used by handloom weavers in India and exported to China.

Explanation

The passage from Chapter 4 ('The Peculiarities of Industrial Growth') directly states: "Since yarn was not an important part of British imports into India, the early cotton mills in India produced coarse cotton yarn rather than fabric… The yarn produced in Indian spinning mills was used by handloom weavers in India or exported to China." So both A and R are factually correct, and R logically explains why A happened — making A the right option.

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