As the British extended their economic and military control over India, from the coastal cities to the inland regions,
a. all local Indian rulers became richer and more powerful.
b. British and Indian elite wealth and success increased, as did that of Indian peasants.
c. both the British and the Indians prospered from the new alliance.
d. British colonial rule in India initially favored Indian interests over those of Britain.
e. an estimated one-third of the population in areas under British East Company control died in the 1770s in a series of massive famines.
e
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