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Cities like Kolkata and Chennai were given a lot of importance during colonial rule because ____________ |
due to huge population, these cities were favoured raw materials were exported and manufactured goods were cheaply imported majority population in these cities worked in factories, offices or shops had lot of cheap labour available |
raw materials were exported and manufactured goods were cheaply imported |
The correct answer is Option (2) → raw materials were exported and manufactured goods were cheaply imported. Cities had a key role in the economic system of empires. Coastal cities such as Mumbai, Kolkata and Chennai were favoured. From here primary commodities could be easily exported and manufactured goods could be cheaply imported. Colonial cities were the prime link between the economic centre or core in Britain and periphery or margins in colonised India. Cities in this sense were the concrete expression of global capitalism. |
