Question

what were the effects of influence of first world war.

Answer 1

Some of it's effects on India were as:

1. It gave birth to a heavy tax burden situation because the huge expenditures in defence were to be financed by increasing taxes and raising custom duties.

2. People were forcefully recruited in the army for world war 1 which made people angry against the Britishers..

3. Crop failures and spread of influenza epidemic led to widespread hardships for which Britishers paid no notice during the war.

4. Dissolution of Ottoman empire by the imperial powers which paved the way for non-cooperation movement in India.

5. The business class got effected due to the British policies during the war.