Other economic critics
Whole chapter · 18–28 focused hours
Company administration and colonial economy
A first-attempt learner with school-level reading and little retained modern history. Later chronological chapters assume earlier phases have been studied. History optional and basic literacy remediation are outside this plan.
Includes
- Selected primary readings and historical maps/source extracts
- A short chronology or comparison notes
- Available mapped practice, mistake review and one initial recall review
Separate time needed
- Later spaced revisions and full mock examinations
- Reading every reference book, appendix or optional exercise in full
- Exclude current economic policy and independent India’s institutions; post-1858 press examples stay here to avoid a second press budget.
Editorial planning estimate; not learner timing data
- R.C. Dutt’s critique of colonial economic policy
- Ranade’s case for Indian industrial development
- Economic criticism through the nationalist press
- G. Subramania Iyer’s economic criticism
Where to study this topic
- Our Pasts III, Class VIII, Chapter 8: The Making of the National Movement: 1870s-1947 ↗
ch. 8 The Making of the National Movement: 1870s-1947, The Emergence of Nationalism, p. 3 (printed 95)
- India's Struggle for Independence 1857-1947 (Bipan Chandra and others), OCR text of the Digital Library of India scan, Internet Archive item in.ernet.dli.2015.130998 ↗
ch. 7 An Economic Critique of Colonialism, pp. 91-101
- UPSC Detailed (Micro Topic) Syllabus, Modern History (GS SCORE) ↗
heading: Economic Policies of The British
- History Syllabus (Drishti IAS, Delhi branch) ↗
Paper 2, item 4
Whole chapter reading
- Our Pasts III, Class VIII, Chapter 2: From Trade to Territory: The Company Establishes Power ↗
The administrative changes after conquest
- Our Pasts III, Class VIII, Chapter 3: Ruling the Countryside ↗
Land revenue, cultivation and the indigo case
- Our Pasts III, Class VIII, Chapter 6: Civilising the Native, Educating the Nation ↗
Colonial education debates and institutions
- Themes in Indian History Part III, Class XII, Theme 9 Colonialism and the Countryside: Exploring Official Archives ↗
Bengal zamindars and revenue administration; Deccan credit and revenue cases. Read Santhal resistance with the resistance chapter.
- Social Changes ↗
Sections 18.3–18.4, education policy and press
- India’s Struggle for Independence, publisher edition record ↗
Chapters 7–8, economic criticism and press freedom; select the passages relevant to this chapter rather than rereading events assigned elsewhere.
Book required - Courseware on Modern Indian History, 4th edition (Sonali Bansal and Snehil Tripathi) ↗
Unit 3, chapters 1–3; appendices 3–4 as targeted reference; study only material not covered by the selected school-text passages.
Book required - Courseware on Indian Polity, 8th edition (M. Laxmikanth) ↗
Chapter 1: Company-era Acts only; one historical chronology shared with Polity
Book required · Supplementary