Which of these was an important effect of the railways in colonial India?

It made Indian villages fully self-sufficient in food, cloth and toolsCorrect answerYour answerIt cut India's exports of raw materials to Britain sharplyCorrect answerYour answerIt stopped people from travelling long distances across IndiaCorrect answerYour answerIt commercialised farming and weakened village self-sufficiencyCorrect answerYour answer

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Correct answer: D

Railways let people travel far, breaking geographical and cultural barriers.
They also carried cash crops to ports, commercialising farming and weakening village self-sufficiency.

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Which of these was an important effect of the railways in colonial India?

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