A serious gap in colonial India's industrial base was the near absence of

cotton textile millsCorrect answerYour answerjute millsCorrect answerYour answercapital goods industriesCorrect answerYour answersmall handicraft unitsCorrect answerYour answer

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Capital goods industries make the machine tools used to make other goods. India had hardly any.
Without them, any further industrialisation depended on imported machinery.

Concept: Capital goods
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A serious gap in colonial India's industrial base was the near absence of

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