First Established Industry in India – PDF + Static GK: In 1818, the first cotton mill in India was established in Fort Gloster, near Kolkata, but it was a commercial failure. In 1854, KGN Daber founded the Bombay Spinning and Weaving Company, India’s second cotton mill. This mill is credited with laying the foundations for India’s current cotton industry.
First Established Industries in India List:
| Industry | Established Area | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Jute Industry | Rishra at Hooghly started, the first use of power looms from 1859. | 1855 |
| Cotton Textile Industry | Fortglaster near Kolkata (Gushuri), First modernized industry | 1818 |
| cotton Textile Industry | Mumbai Mill | 1854 |
| Iron Steel Industry | Portonovo (Tamil Nadu) Barakar Iron Works | 1830 1874 |
| Paper Industry | Chennai | 1816 |
| Paper Industry | Serampore (Hooghly) | 1832 |
| Paper Industry | Ballygunge, (Kolkata) | 1870 |
| Sugarcane | North Bihar | 1876 |
| Cement | Chennai | 1904 |
| Cycle | Mumbai | 1940 |
| Woolen Textile | Lal Imli (Uttar Pradesh) | 1940 |
| Automobile | Mumbai | 1928 |
| Automobile | Premier Automobile Limited (Kurla) | 1930 |
| Automobile | Hindustan Motors Limited (Hindmotor) | 1948 |
| Fertilizer | Ranipet (Tamil Nadu) | 1906 |
| Newsprint | Nepanagar (Madhya Pradesh) | 1955 |
| Lead and Zinc | Dhanbad | 1942 |
| Copper | Indian Copper Corporation | 1924 |
| Aeronautics | Bengaluru (Hindustan Aircraft L.td | 1940 |
| Heavy Engineering | Hindustan Machine tools Bangaluru | 1953 |
| Glass | Talagang Maharashtra | 1908 |
| Aluminium Industry | Jaykaynagar (West Bengal) | 1837 |
| Shipping Industry | The Hindustan Shipyard in Vishakhapatnam | 1941 |