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Question
Give two examples to show that the British followed the policy of discrimination against India.
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Solution
(i) The Indians were kept out of European clubs and could not travel in the same compartment in trains in which the Englishmen travelled.
(ii) The Arms Act of Lord Lytton declared keeping of arms and their trade without license as a crime, but the Europeans were exempted from this law.
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