NCERT Book Class 10 Social Science (History) Chapter 4 The Age of Industrialisation

Chapter IV
The Age of Industrialisation

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Fig. 1 – Dawn of the Century, published by E.T. Paull Music Co.,
New York, England, 1900.

In 1900, a popular music publisher E.T. Paull produced a music
book that had a picture on the cover page announcing the ‘Dawn
of the Century’ (Fig. 1). As you can see from the illustration, at the
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centre of the picture is a goddess-like figure, the angel of progress,
bearing the flag of the new century. She is gently perched on a wheel
The Age of Industrialisation
with wings, symbolising time. Her flight is taking her into the future.
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Floating about, behind her, are the signs of progress: railway, camera,
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machines, printing press and factory. Orient – The countries to the east of
the Mediterranean, usually referring to
This glorification of machines and technology is even more marked
Asia. The term arises out of a western
in a picture which appeared on the pages of a trade magazine over
viewpoint that sees this region as pre-
a hundred years ago (Fig. 2). It shows two magicians. The one at the
modern, traditional and mysterious
top is Aladdin from the Orient who built a beautiful palace with his

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