Multiple choice

Assertion (A): Within half a century of the Battle of Plassey, the phenomenal prosperity of Bengal suffered a serious setback. Reason (R): The manufacture of cotton goods, the most important commodity of export from India, increased in other parts of India while it declined in Bengal.

  1. Both A and R are individually true and R is the correct explanation of A

  2. Both A and R are individually true but R is not the correct explanation of A

  3. A is true but R is false

  4. A is false but R is true
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C Correct answer
Explanation

The decline of the Indian textile industry was primarily due to the influx of cheap, machine-made British goods and discriminatory trade policies, not because manufacturing increased in other parts of India. The assertion is true, but the reason is false.

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