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By selling which of the items to China, did the British regularly collect money for purchasing tea from China

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Opium
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Jute
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Cotton
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Sugarcane
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Solution

The correct option is A Opium
Britain grew opium in India and exported it to China and, with the money earned through this sale, it financed its tea and other imports from China.

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