Question

explain your views regarding the social and the economic conditions preavillinin in the 18th century​

Answer 1

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India of the 18th century, failed to make sufficient economic, social or cultural progress necessary to save the country from collapse. ... However constant warfare, disruption of law and order, affected the country's internal trade and disrupted its foreign trade to some extent and in some directions.

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Answer 2

Explanation:

India of the 18th century failed to make progress economically, socially, or culturally at a pace, which would have saved the country from collapse.

The increasing revenue demands of the state, the oppression of the officials, the greed and rapacity of the nobles, revenue-farmers, and zamindars, the marches and countermarches of the rival armies, and the depredations of the numerous adventurers roaming the land during the first half of the 18th century made the life of the people quite despicable.

India of those days, was also a land of contrasts. Extreme poverty existed side by side with extreme rich and luxury. On the one hand, there were the rich and powerful nobles steeped in luxury and comfort; on the other, backward, oppressed, and impoverished peasants living at the bare subsistence level and having to bear all sorts of injustices and inequities.

Even so, the life of the Indian masses was by and large better at this time than it was after over 100 years of British rule at the end of the 19th century.

Agriculture

Indian agriculture during the 18th century was technically backward and stagnant. The techniques of production had remained stationary for centuries.

The peasants tried to make up for technical backwardness by working very hard. They, In fact, performed miracles of production; moreover, they did not usually suffer from shortage of land. But, unfortunately, they seldom reaped the fruits of their labor.

Even though it was peasants’ produce that supported the rest of the society, their own reward was miserably inadequate.

Trade

Even though the Indian villages were largely self-sufficient and imported little from outside and the means of communication were backward, extensive trade within the country and between India and other countries of Asia and Europe was earned on under the Mughals.

India imported −

pearls, raw silk, wool, dates, dried fruits, and rose water from the Persian Gulf region;

coffee, gold, drugs, and honey from Arabia;

tea, sugar, porcelain, and silk from China;

gold, musk and woolen cloth from Tibet;

tin from Singapore;

spices, perfumes, attack, and sugar from the Indonesian islands;

ivory and drugs from Africa; and

woolen cloth, metals such as copper, iron, and lead, and paper from Europe.

India's most important article of export was cotton textiles, which were famous all over the world for their excellence and were in demand everywhere.