The first Jute mill was established in 1855 in ____.

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The first Jute mill was established in 1855 in Bengal. By the end of the nineteenth century, India's factories started producing, which overloaded the market with machine goods. Hence, setting up mills became inevitable for the weavers and weaving industries to survive. In 1854, Bombay's first cotton mill was built, and two years later, it began to produce cotton. Four mills with 94,000 spindles and 2,150 looms were in operation by 1862. Jute mills started to appear in Bengal at about the same period, with the first opening in 1855 and the second following in 1862. In the 1860s, Kanpur, India, saw the beginnings of the Elgin Mill, and a year later, Ahmedabad, India, saw the construction of its first cotton mill. The Madras region's initial spinning and weaving mill started operating in 1874.

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