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Trade through Surat was Rs 16 million in the late seventeenth century. By the 1740s it had slumped to:

ARs 6 million
BRs 1 million
CRs 3 million
DRs 8 million
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: C. Rs 3 million
1. European companies took monopoly rights to trade. 2. Surat trade fell to Rs 3 million. 3. Bombay and Calcutta grew instead. _Source: NCERT Class 10 India and the Contemporary World II, Chapter 4, The Age of Industrialisation._
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