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By selling which of the items to china, did the British regulary 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
The English East India Company used to buy tea and silk from China for sale in England. For buying tea and silk they used to trade opium.

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