Consider the following statements about the arrival of tobacco in India :

1. Tobacco plant arrived first in the Deccan.

2. Tobacco spread to northern India in the early years of the seventeenth century.

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

Consider the following Women's Associations and their important associates in early twentieth century India :

1. Women’s Indian Association of 1917 : Margaret Cousins

2. National Council of Women in India of 1925 : Sarala Devi Chaudhurani

3. Bharat Stree Mahamandal of 1910 : Lady Meherbai Tata

Which of the above pairs is/are correctly matched?

Consider the following statements about the issue of separate electorate during the early decades of the twentieth century in India as a means to secure adequate representation for the deprived social categories in the absence of universal adult franchise:

1. The All India Depressed Classes Association of M.C. Rajah was staunchly in favour of joint electorate.

2. The All India Depressed Classes Leaders’ Conference demanded separate electorate.

3. The Communal Award in September 1932 recognised the right to separate electorate for the 'untouchables'.

Which of the statements given above are correct?

Which of the following statements with regard to the famous 'silk routes' are correct?

1. Silk routes refer to East-bound European silk cargoes along these routes.

2. There were several silk routes, over land and by sea, joining together vast regions of Asia with Europe and northern Africa.

3. They are known to have existed since before the Christian Era and thrived almost till the fifteenth century.

4. Besides silk, Chinese pottery, textiles and spices from India and South-east Asia travelled the same route.

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