पुढील विधाने काळजीपूर्वक वाचून योग्य पर्याय निवडा.
अ. अमेरिकन यादवी युद्ध संपल्यावर महाराष्ट्रात कापसाचे भाव कोसळले.
ब. महाराष्ट्रातील दुष्काळातही इंग्रज सरकारने सारावसुलीची सक्ती केली.
क. महाराष्ट्रातील शेतकऱ्यांना सावकारांकडून कर्जे काढावी लागत व ते कर्जबाजारी होत.

The correct answer is Option C (c is the effect of a and b.).

Key Points:
• The agrarian crisis in nineteenth-century Maharashtra led to the historic Deccan Riots of 1875.
• The American Civil War (1861–1865) created a temporary cotton boom in the Deccan, but once the war ended, American supplies returned, causing Indian cotton prices to crash drastically (Statement a).
• Concurrently, the Bombay Presidency raised the land revenue assessment (by 30% or more) and strictly collected taxes despite recurrent droughts and crop failures (Statement b).
• The combination of falling agricultural produce prices and inflexible British tax demands compelled peasants to borrow at exorbitant interest rates from local moneylenders (sahukars/marwaris), pushing them into acute indebtedness and bankruptcy (Statement c). Thus, 'c' is the direct cumulative effect of both 'a' and 'b'.
• Key Takeaway: The collapse of cotton prices after the American Civil War and unyielding British land revenue demands together drove Maharashtra peasants into heavy indebtedness (c is the effect of a and b).