Economically, one of the results of the British rule in India in the 19th century was the

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Correct Answer: commercialization of Indian agriculture. Economic Impact of British rule ● Deindustrialisation - Ruin of artisans and handicraftsmen with cheap and machine made goods imports flooded the Indian market, whereas Indian products found it more and more difficult to penetrate the European markets. ● Decline of many cities and a process of ruralisation of India - Many artisans, faced with diminishing returns and repressive policies of the Company abandoned their professions and moved to villages and took to agriculture. ● The sole aim of the British company was to make India a global farmland . Thus, there was ab emergence of the commercialisation of agriculture. Commercial crops like cotton, jute, groundnut, oil seeds, sugarcane, tobacco, etc., were more remunerative than food grains.

Economically, one of the results of the British rule in India in the 19th century was the

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