The author lists all of the following as outcomes of the Second World War EXCEPT:

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The author lists all of the following as outcomes of the Second World War EXCEPT:

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A.
US recognition of India's strategic location and role in the war.
B.
Large-scale deaths in Bengal as a result of deprivation and famine.
C.
Independence of the subcontinent and its partition into two countries.
D.
The large financial debt India owed to Britain after the war.

Option D is the correct answer.

Explanatory Answer

Option 4 is clearly incorrect, as the passage states that ‘ India finished the war as one of the largest creditors’ to Britain in the second world war. (see paragraph 5).

Evidence to support option 1 is in paragraph 4. That the Bengal famine was one of the dreadful outcomes of the war is explained in paragraph 6. Evidence to support option 3 is in paragraph 7.