History & Civics
Answer
Two economic factors that caused the Uprising of 1857 were:
- Agricultural India became an economic colony of industrial England. Raw materials like raw cotton and raw silk were forcibly exported at cheaper rates to British industries. Plantation products (like indigo and tea) and food grains which were in short supply in Britain were also exported cheaply from India. This deprived India of her agricultural surplus raising the prices of raw materials.
- The art of spinning and weaving, which for ages had given employment to thousands of artisans, became extinct.
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