Practicing Success

Target Exam

CUET

Subject

History

Chapter

Modern India: Colonial cities

Question:
The majority of the population in Bombay, Madras and Calcutta was engaged in which of the following sector when the Britishers started settling there?
Options:
Primary
Secondary
Tertiary
Secondary and Tertiary both
Correct Answer:
Tertiary
Explanation:
Although Calcutta, Bombay and Madras supplied raw materials for industry in England, and had emerged because of modern economic forces like capitalism, their economies were not primarily based on factory production. The majority of the working population in these cities belonged to what economists classify as the tertiary sector.