This plant (tobacco), which arrived first in the _________ spread to northern India in the early years of seventeenth-century.
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 2
The correct answer is Option (2) → Deccan
Tobacco arrived first in the Deccan and spread to northern India in the early years of the seventeenth century. The Ain-i Akbari does not list it among the crops of northern India; Akbar and his nobles first came across it in 1604. Smoking soon caught on so widely that Jahangir banned it, without success: by the end of the century tobacco was a major crop and article of trade all over India.
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