All of the following were practices of the British East India Company EXCEPT
A) It required peasant farmers to grow tea and opium, which led to severe famines.
B) The company encouraged the practice of Christian proselytizing.
C) It set out to destroy Bengal's cotton industry to eliminate competition with British textiles.
D) Opium became the single most important source of British revenue in the early 19th century.
E) The company introduced English Common Law into Indian farm land tenure.
Question 2
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