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During the nineteenth century a host of smaller cities declined in India.

Which of the following may be the reason for that decline?

(i) Many towns manufacturing specialised goods declined due to a drop in the demand for what they produced.

(ii) Old trading centres and ports could not survive when the flow of trade moved to new centres.

(iii) Earlier centres of regional power collapsed when local rulers were defeated by the British and new centres of administration emerged.

A)  Only i  

B)  Only i and ii

C)  Only ii and iii   

D)  i, ii and iii

E)  None of these