{"id":131233,"date":"2023-02-15T14:15:58","date_gmt":"2023-02-15T08:45:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/?p=131233"},"modified":"2023-02-15T14:15:58","modified_gmt":"2023-02-15T08:45:58","slug":"how-was-the-social-and-political-situation-of-india-affected-by-the-first-world-war-explain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/education\/how-was-the-social-and-political-situation-of-india-affected-by-the-first-world-war-explain","title":{"rendered":"How was the social and political situation of India affected by the First World War? Explain"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Question :How was the social and political situation of India affected by the First World War? Explain<\/h3>\n<h3>The correct answer is-<\/h3>\n<p>The war created a new economic and political situation.<br \/>\nii. It led to a huge increase in defence expenditure which was financed by war loans and<br \/>\nincreasing taxes: customs duties were raised and income tax introduced.<br \/>\niii. Through the war years prices increased \u2013 doubling between 1913 and 1918 \u2013leading to<br \/>\nextreme hardship for the common people.<br \/>\niv. Villages were called upon to supply soldiers, and the forced recruitment in rural areas<br \/>\ncaused widespread anger.<br \/>\nv. Crops failed in many parts of India, resulting in acute shortages of food.<br \/>\nvi. This was accompanied by an influenza epidemic. Million people perished as a result of<br \/>\nfamines and the epidemic.<br \/>\nvii. Any other relevant point<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question :How was the social and political situation of India affected by the First World War? Explain The correct answer is- The war created a new economic and political situation. ii. It led to a huge increase in defence expenditure which was financed by war loans and increasing taxes: customs duties were raised and income [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21842,"featured_media":130936,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-131233","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-education"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21842"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131233"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":131234,"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131233\/revisions\/131234"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/130936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}