The British Raj

question 24

Multiple Choice

The British Raj

• A)brought even greater disorder and inefficiency in Indian governmental administration.
• B)enacted a homestead decree which gave all Indian peasants approximately fifty-five acres for each family to cultivate as its own, private property.
• C)established a new school system to educate the children of the Indian elite.
• D)quickly allowed native Indians to join the highest levels of the colonial administration.
• E)brought democracy to the subcontinent by 1892.

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