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Direction: In the following passage, some of the words have been left out, each of which is indicated by a number. Find the suitable word from the options given against each number and fill up the blanks with appropriate words to make the paragraph meaningful.

The economic history of India shows a number of distinct phases over the period it fell under the colonial control to the modem times when it (21) on economic reforms. Before the formal onset of the British colonial rule in India after the Battle of Plassey in 1757, India was among the richest (22) of the world. According to some (23), during the Mughal period India was the second-largest economy having a share of almost 25 per cent of the world economy. Two centuries of the (24) British colonial rule led to India's wealth being (25) away and the process of 'deindustrialization' taking a heavy (26) on the people of India. The great nationalist leader Dadabhai Naoroji was the first person to systematically highlight this (27) of the colonial (28). His analysis laid the "theoretical (29) for the freedom struggle (30) in India's independence in 1947.

A) culminating                   

B) crowning    

C) converting                     

D) sustaining   

E) dreaming