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What were the effects of first world war in india |
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Answer» 1)First world war created a new economic and political situation. It led to a huge increase of taxes like custom duties and income tax introduced2)Through the war years prices increased which led to extreme hardship for comman people.3)villages were called to supply the forces and force recuriment in areas caused widespread anger4)crops failed in many parts of India from 1918 to 1921 resulting in acute shortage of food. This was accomplished by an influenza epidemic5)According to census of 1921,12 to 13 millons people perished as result of faminies and the epidemic The war have created so many problems like income tax in introduced and custom duty and other taxes are increased people were forced to join the army and a disease name influenza is spread many people are suffering from famine because crop has failed from this problem approx million of people died 1.War created a different economic and political situation. 2.Defence expenditure were increased which led to increased custom duties and introduction of income tax.3. Forced recruitment was done to avoid shortage of soldiers |
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