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NDA 1 2024 GAT, question 136

Topic: History

Q136

Consider the following statements about the arrival of tobacco in India :

  1. Tobacco plant arrived first in the Deccan.

  2. Tobacco spread to northern India in the early years of the seventeenth century.

Which of the statements given above is/are correct ?

  1. (a) 1 only
  2. (b) 2 only
  3. (c) Both 1 and 2Correct answer
  4. (d) Neither 1 nor 2

Solution.

Answer: (c) Both 1 and 2

  1. Tobacco reached the Deccan first and spread into northern India in the early seventeenth century.
  2. Both statements match the historical account of this New World crop’s introduction.