Which of the following statements concerning British administration of India in the last decades of the 19th century is most accurate?
(A) The British demilitarization of India caused substantial unemployment.
(B) The enlightened British policy, begun in the 1880s, of fostering Indian industrialization through tariffs on imported British goods began to improve the Indian economy.
(C) British emphasis on the production of cash crops such as jute, cotton, and indigo led to shortages of food production in India.
(D) Indian economic dependency on Britain was beginning to end, as more of the steel for production of railways was produced on the subcontinent.
(E) India never had a strict dependency on the British.
Answer: C