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The British policy of 'Divide and Rule' in colonial India involved exploiting social divisions. Which of the following best describes a sophisticated structural manifestation of this policy?
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- 1The direct suppression of any educational institutions that allowed students from multiple religious communities to study together.
- 2The complete physical and spatial segregation of different religious communities in all aspects of rural and urban social life.
- 3The strategic creation of political institutions, such as separate electorates, that institutionalized religious identities as primary categories.✓
- 4The consistent and unwavering support for the majority religious community to completely suppress minority aspirations.
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The strategic creation of political institutions, such as separate electorates, that institutionalized religious identities as primary categories.
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