Practicing Success

Target Exam

CUET

Subject

Sociology

Chapter

Social Change and Development in India: Structural Change

Question:

During the Colonial rule Madras exported:

A. coffee, cotton
B. coffee, indigo
C. coffee, sugar
D. coffee, jute

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

Options:

A, B, C only

A, B, D only

B, C, D only

A, C and D only

Correct Answer:

A, B, C only

Explanation:

The correct answer is Option (1) → A, B, C only

In British India for example Bombay was planned and re-developed so that by 1900 over three-quarters of India’s raw cotton were shipped through the city. Calcutta exported jute to Dundee while Madras sent coffee, sugar, indigo dyes and cotton to Britain.