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What role did Great Britain play in India's history of religious tension? A. Great Britain made Islam the official religion of India. B. Great Britain made Hinduism the official religion of India. C. Great Britain often used religion as a way to categorize people. D. Great Britain sided with Islamic forces against the Hindu population.

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The correct answer is C. Britain used religion to categorize people. Essentially castes. 
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The correct answer is C) Great Britain often used religion as a way to categorize people.

The role that Great Britain played in India's history of religious tension was that "Great Britain often used religion as a way to categorize people."

That is true, and also the role that Britain played in the partition of India, due to religious conflicts. In 1947, the Indian territory controlled by England split into two different territories: India and Pakistan. The religion conflict between Muslims and Hinduist ended up creating a division in which the followers of Islam formed Pakistan and the followers of Hinduism remained in India.

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