{"id":150858,"date":"2023-07-11T12:49:49","date_gmt":"2023-07-11T07:19:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=150858"},"modified":"2023-07-11T12:49:51","modified_gmt":"2023-07-11T07:19:51","slug":"the-intensity-of-famine-increased-in-india-under-the-british-rule-because","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/the-intensity-of-famine-increased-in-india-under-the-british-rule-because\/","title":{"rendered":"The intensity of famine increased in India, under the British rule because"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Q. The intensity of famine increased in India, under the British rule because<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(a) The failure of monsoons became frequent<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(b) The drain of wealth from India was uncontrolled<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(c) Of the poor distribution of food grains<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(d) Discriminatory protection was extended, to food processing industries<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ans: (b) The drain of wealth from India was uncontrolled<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Explanation: British colonial rule had a tremendous impact\u00a0on\u00a0all sections of\u00a0Indian\u00a0society. They extracted\u00a0as\u00a0much money\u00a0as\u00a0possible from the peasants\u00a0and\u00a0tribal people. From 1763 to 1856 there were\u00a0more\u00a0than 40 major rebellions. The Sanyasis rose in rebellion after the great\u00a0famine\u00a0of 1770 in Bengal. The intensity of famine increased in India, under the British rule because the British were continuously draining India\u2019s wealth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Q. The intensity of famine increased in India, under the British rule because (a) The failure of monsoons became frequent (b) The drain of wealth from India was uncontrolled (c) Of the poor distribution of food grains (d) Discriminatory protection was extended, to food processing industries Ans: (b) The drain of wealth from India was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":419,"featured_media":150871,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5018],"tags":[5019],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-150858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-history-quiz","tag-upsc-history-quiz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/419"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150858"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150858\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":150872,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150858\/revisions\/150872"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/150871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150858"},{"taxonomy":"offerexpiration","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/offerexpiration?post=150858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}