History · Negotiating the Sources
UGC NET December 2020 History (Shift-II)
According to Morris D. Morris, deindustrialization in nineteenth-century India was a myth, because:
AThe statistical proof for the decline of handicrafts is difficult to find. ✓ Correct
BHe collected his research material from some early nineteenth-century memoirs that celebrate the flourishing handicrafts.
CThere are enough pieces of evidence to show that the rich landowners patronized handicrafts.
DThe twentieth-century sources reflect back on the glorious period of handicrafts in the past.
Correct answer: (A) The statistical proof for the decline of handicrafts is difficult to find. — The statistical proof for the decline of handicrafts is difficult to find, so that is the answer.
Explanation
★The statistical proof for the decline of handicrafts is difficult to find, so that is the answer.
★According to Morris D. Morris, deindustrialization in nineteenth-century India was a myth.
★This is because the statistical proof for the decline of handicrafts is difficult to find.
★He questioned the dominant nationalist thesis of ruin of handicrafts.
★He wrote on the emergence of an industrial labour force in the Bombay cotton mills.
★So for Morris the deindustrialization was a myth because statistical proof of decline is hard to find.
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