Answer the multiple choice question based on documents A and B Which choice could help a student prove the claim made in Document B?10Statistics indicating a variety of prices for similar foods throughout India2A military report indicating a frustration in the ability to move troops throughout India3.A bookstore's sales records showing an increase in book sales by local Indian authorsA railroad traveler list showing a decrease in passenger usage in Indian agricultural areas2 Document A... A review of the existing railway policy led them [Indian nationalist leaders] to conclude that it [the railroad system] was not primarily regulated in the interests of theIndian people; and that it largely ignored Indian needs, particularly industrial needs, and was mainly meant to serve British economic and political interests...They [Indians] wanted railways to serve national economic interest by stimulating economic development, which was in turn seen as consisting of industrial andagricultural growth. To them the proper railway policy was one that promoted Indian industry and a proper public works policy that gave priority to irrigation andagriculture.Source: Bipan Chandra, "Economic Nationalism and the Railway Debate, circa 1880-1905,"in Our Indian Railway, Foundation Books (adapted)Document BThe railroads facilitated, linked, and coordinated a wide variety of socioeconomic processes and cooperated with other large-scale transportation and communicationsystems. For example, the railroads enabled national markets with converging prices for food grains which reduced the gap between prices throughout India; the samerailroads made it possible for peasant villagers to undertake quick pilgrimages (within a few days or less) during their brief respites [relief] from the demands ofagriculture. The hard backbone of British colonial rule in India, the British soldier and his weaponry, could be quartered in fewer places in the knowledge that therailroads could transport troops rapidly to trouble spots. The publications of what became the outpourings of many presses owned by Indians and printed in Indianlanguages and in English found profitable markets. The railroads, synergistically [mutually] cooperating with the post office, facilitated the inexpensive, bulk shipmentsof books, magazines, and newspapers...Source: lan J. Kerr, Engines of Change: The Railroads That Made India, Praeger

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Answer the multiple choice question based on documents A and B Which choice could help a student prove the claim made in Document B?10Statistics indicating a variety of prices for similar foods throughout India2A military report indicating a frustration in the ability to move troops throughout India3.A bookstore's sales records showing an increase in book sales by local Indian authorsA railroad traveler list showing a decrease in passenger usage in Indian agricultural areas2 Document A... A review of the existing railway policy led them [Indian nationalist leaders] to conclude that it [the railroad system] was not primarily regulated in the interests of theIndian people; and that it largely ignored Indian needs, particularly industrial needs, and was mainly meant to serve British economic and political interests...They [Indians] wanted railways to serve national economic interest by stimulating economic development, which was in turn seen as consisting of industrial andagricultural growth. To them the proper railway policy was one that promoted Indian industry and a proper public works policy that gave priority to irrigation andagriculture.Source: Bipan Chandra, &#34;Economic Nationalism and the Railway Debate, circa 1880-1905,&#34;in Our Indian Railway, Foundation Books (adapted)Document BThe railroads facilitated, linked, and coordinated a wide variety of socioeconomic processes and cooperated with other large-scale transportation and communicationsystems. For example, the railroads enabled national markets with converging prices for food grains which reduced the gap between prices throughout India; the samerailroads made it possible for peasant villagers to undertake quick pilgrimages (within a few days or less) during their brief respites [relief] from the demands ofagriculture. The hard backbone of British colonial rule in India, the British soldier and his weaponry, could be quartered in fewer places in the knowledge that therailroads could transport troops rapidly to trouble spots. The publications of what became the outpourings of many presses owned by Indians and printed in Indianlanguages and in English found profitable markets. The railroads, synergistically [mutually] cooperating with the post office, facilitated the inexpensive, bulk shipmentsof books, magazines, and newspapers...Source: lan J. Kerr, Engines of Change: The Railroads That Made India, Praeger

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Prices refer to the amount that consumers in a particular market are willing to pay in exchange for…