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Correct Answer: Option (C) — commercialization of Indian agriculture
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Standard Reference VerifiedA primary economic consequence of 19th-century British rule was the commercialization of Indian agriculture. Subsistence food grain production was replaced by cash crop cultivation (such as cotton, jute, indigo, tea, and opium) to feed British industries and facilitate colonial export trade, exposing peasants to international market fluctuations.
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