HISTORY
MISCELLENOUS QUESTIONS
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A and B
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Industry
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Trade
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Agriculture
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Detailed explanation-1: -The British employed the ‘Divide and Rule’ policy to control India. This created a division among the Indians in terms of religion and political thought.
Detailed explanation-2: -British economic policies gave them a monopoly over India’s large market and cotton resources. India served as both a significant supplier of raw goods to British manufacturers and a large captive market for British manufactured goods.
Detailed explanation-3: -They forced the commercialisation of agriculture with the growing of various cash crops and the raw materials for the industries in the Britain. With the strong political control, the British were able to monopolise the trade with India. They defeated their foreign rivals in trade so that there could be no competition.