UPSC CSE Prelims
Question 70
Economically, one of the results of the British rule in India in the 19th century was the
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Correct answer: C
Correct Option: C
Explanation: Nineteenth-century British colonial policy drew Indian agriculture into commercial production of cotton, indigo, jute, tea and opium for markets and export, often undermining subsistence priorities.
Option-wise Analysis:
A: Incorrect - The period saw decline rather than a general boom of Indian handicraft exports.
B: Incorrect - Indian-owned factories later grew but were not the defining nineteenth-century colonial economic outcome here.
C: Correct - Correct-commercialisation of agriculture expanded cash-crop production for markets.
D: Incorrect - Colonial deindustrialisation and changing occupations did not yield the rapid, general urban-population rise claimed.