The economic Impact in India and the consequences for British Rule.

Question 1

What did the war disrupt in India?

Answer 1

Normal trading and created exchange rate problems

Question 2

What did the price of food grains inflate by?

Answer 2

Rose by 93%

Question 3

What did the price of Indian-imposed goods inflate by?

Answer 3

Rose by 60%

Question 4

What did the price of imported goods inflate by?

Answer 4

Rose by 190%

Question 5

What was the situation exacerbated by?

Answer 5

The failure of the monsoon rains to arrive in 1918-1919, leading to grain shortages and famine.

Question 6

What type of people halted the assistance of the GOVT?

Answer 6

The GOVT was too often frustrated by speculators and profiteers.

Question 7

What products expanded in orders to replace goods imported?

Answer 7

Cotton,
Iron and Steel,
Sugar,
Engineering and chemicals.

Question 8

In Bombay, dividends from cloth mills jumped to?

Answer 8

Jumped from 6% in 1914 to over 30% in 1917.

Question 9

By 1918, what was the Viceroy being regularly informed off?

Answer 9

Of food riots,
Petty violence,
Rioting.

Question 10

What did some Indians express?

Answer 10

That the support for the Raj was crumbling.

Question 11

What was fortunate for the British?

Answer 11

That the outbreak of disillusionment was sporadic and never turned into a general campaign.

Question 12

What was silly of the Raj?

Answer 12

That they felt that the economic effects of war would NOT have serious political consequences for the Raj.

Question 13

In March 1915, what was slightly dangerous?

Answer 13

That by then there was not a single British battalion, making any sort of uprising tricky to contain.