Concept:British colonial policies and industrial competition destroyed India's traditional textile industry in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
Explanation:Statement (a) is true. The Industrial Revolution allowed Britain to mass-produce cheap textiles, forcing Indian handloom cloth to compete with them in Europe and America.
Statement (b) is false. Britain closed its own market to Indian textiles by imposing high tariffs to protect its new factories.
Statement (c) is true. British trade restrictions made it very hard for Indian textile exporters to sell in England.
Statement (d) is true. As English and European companies stopped buying Indian cloth, Bengal weavers lost their main customers and suffered the worst economic blow.
Therefore, only statements (a), (c), and (d) are correct.
Answer:Option A. (a), (c) and (d) only