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The Age of Industrialisation — Syllabus

Madhya Pradesh Board · Class 10 · Social Science

What The Age of Industrialisation covers in Madhya Pradesh Board Class 10 Social Science: 4 topics, for the 2026-27 session.

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4 Topics · Madhya Pradesh Board Class 10 Social Science · 2026-27

Topics in The Age of Industrialisation

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1. Before Factory Industry

  • Proto-industrialisation means large-scale industrial production for an international market that was not based on factories.
  • In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, merchants moved to the countryside and gave work to peasants and artisans.
  • Rural households produced goods for merchants while continuing cultivation on small plots of land.
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2. The Coming Up of Factories and Industrial Change in Britain

  • The earliest factories in England came up by the 1730s.
  • Britain's raw cotton imports rose from 2.5 million pounds in 1760 to 22 million pounds by 1787.
  • Cotton was the leading dynamic sector in the first phase of British industrialisation up to the 1840s.
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3. Labour, Wages, and Worker Life in Britain

  • Britain had no shortage of human labour in Victorian times.
  • Poor peasants and vagrants moved to cities in search of work, so wages stayed low.
  • Industrialists often preferred hand labour because it was cheaper than machines.
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4. Workers, Jobbers, and Resistance to Machines

  • Job-seekers often walked long distances to find work.
  • Will Thorne walked to London in November 1881 in search of seasonal gas-works employment.
  • Many workers stayed in night shelters, under bridges, or in casual wards while searching for work.

Key Concepts

Central concept: Industrialisation in Britain and India and its impact on production, labour, trade, and markets

Proto-industrialisationFactory system in EnglandCotton industryIron and steel industrySteam powerHand labour and workersWorker life and unemploymentResistance to machines

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Key topics in The Age of Industrialisation include Before Factory Industry, The Coming Up of Factories and Industrial Change in Britain, Labour, Wages, and Worker Life in Britain, Workers, Jobbers, and Resistance to Machines. Study these first, then practise questions on each for the Madhya Pradesh Board Class 10 board exam.
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