Civil Services Prep

Prelims MCQ · Modern History and the Freedom Struggle

Assertion (A): The Deccan Riots arose from an agrarian crisis deeper than a simple cultural hostility towards outsider moneylenders.

Reason (R): A fall in cotton prices after the American Civil War, an increase in land revenue and successive bad harvests intensified the indebtedness of cultivators.

  1. A is false, but R is true.
  2. Both A and R are true, but R is not the correct explanation of A.
  3. A is true, but R is false.
  4. Both A and R are true, and R is the correct explanation of A.
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