Political Science · Political Processes in India
Indian farmers were goaded into the cultivation of opium mainly through the:
APromise of very high prices
BSystem of cash advances ✓ Correct
CAuthority of the village headman
DGrant of revenue concessions
Correct answer: (B) System of cash advances — Farmers were drawn into opium growing through the system of advances, so that is the answer.
Explanation
★Farmers were drawn into opium growing through the system of advances, so that is the answer.
★Traders and officials gave them cash advances.
★Once they took the money they were bound to grow opium.
★The advances tied them into the crop year after year.
★Prices paid to them were in fact kept low.
★So the system of cash advances is the answer.
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