When the growth of technology threatened the British monopoly in India, Britain responded by ...

When the growth of technology threatened the British monopoly in India, Britain responded by limiting access to technology and training to spare the Indians the social upheavals Britain had experienced in the nineteenth century thereby
 
  a. protecting British industry from Indian competition.
  b. bringing educated Indians in as limited partners in trade.
  c. signing a free-trade agreement with the rajas.
  d. deposing obstreperous princes and putting in puppet rulers.
  e. blocking the advancement of Indian entrepreneurs through the civil service exams.