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The English schemed to continue their rule in India by playing off one community ...... the other.
Answer: C
Correct answer: Against
Play off one against the other is a fixed idiom for setting two parties in conflict for one's own advantage - precisely the policy described.
No other preposition completes play off in this sense.
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