Civil Services Prep

Prelims MCQ · Modern History and the Freedom Struggle

During the Free Trade stage of colonialism, import duties were removed or reduced, British capital received access to plantations and infrastructure, administration reached deeper into the countryside, and commercial law and education were reorganised.

Which one of the following conclusions best explains these developments?

  1. Institutional changes were directed towards integrating India with British capitalism, widening market access and facilitating colonial extraction.
  2. The primary objective was to protect Indian manufactures from foreign competition and create an autonomous industrial economy.
  3. Colonial administration deliberately left commercial law and agrarian relations untouched to preserve the pre-colonial economic structure.
  4. British policy aimed to reduce the peasant’s tax burden and limit India’s role as a market for British manufactures.
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