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Regional Economic Decline in 19th-Century India

An economic historian is studying a district in 19th-century India. They find the following trends in the data from 1820 to 1880: a 70% decrease in the output of finished textiles, a 200% increase in the export of raw cotton to Britain, a 25% decrease in the cultivation of local food grains, and a doubling of the land revenue tax collected by the colonial administration. Based on this data, explain how these interconnected trends would likely lead to a decline in the per capita economic output of this district.

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