Why can the end of feudal privileges not be called only an economic reform?

Because it also attacked old inequality of status and rights

Feudal privileges were not merely financial arrangements. They gave nobles and other privileged groups special rights, status, and authority over peasants. Peasants could owe payments, labour, or other dues while receiving fewer rights and less social respect. Ending these privileges therefore changed both the economic burden on rural people and the unequal social structure that supported it.

The reform attacked the idea that birth should determine a person's rights and position. It helped weaken the old hierarchy in which nobles enjoyed advantages simply because of their estate. It did not rebuild the Bastille, close sea trade, or make the king more powerful. Option A is correct because it recognises that abolishing feudal privileges was an economic and social change together.

This is a Class 9 History question. Chapter: The French Revolution. Topic: The Outbreak of the Revolution.