Which city of Uttar Pradesh is known as the Manchester of North India?
- A.Kanpur
- B.Agra
- C.Varanasi
- D.Meerut
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Explanation
The correct answer is A, Kanpur. The city grew in the nineteenth century as the cotton and woollen mill town of the Ganga plain, with army supply orders behind it, and the tanneries of Jajmau grew beside the mills. Even after the cotton mills declined, leather and footwear kept Kanpur an industrial city, and the name Manchester of North India, or Manchester of the East, stayed with it.
Option B, Agra, is a leather footwear city in its own right and its One District One Product is leather footwear, but the mill town title is not used for it. Option C, Varanasi, stands for Banarasi silk, brocade and the locomotive works, not for cotton mills. Option D, Meerut, is the sports goods and scissors town of the west and a large sugar centre, so it too is industrial but not the Manchester of the north.
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Practice Questions
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- A.Khadi Printing
- B.Saree
- C.Chikan Work
- D.Zari Dresses
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- A.Sari
- B.Cement
- C.Glass
- D.Locks
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- A.Mirzapur
- B.Sonbhadra
- C.Lalitpur
- D.Banda
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- A.2014
- B.2016
- C.2018
- D.2020
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- A.Kannauj
- B.Hathras
- C.Pilibhit
- D.Bhadohi
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