Answer:
Political
control of India helped British in the following two ways:
(i) Indian peasants could be forced to grow crops such as indigo, and
cheap British manufacture easily replaced coarser Indian cloth.
(ii) Large number of Indian weavers and spinners were left
without work, and important textile centres such as Murshidabad, Machilipatnam
and Surat declined as demand fell.
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