Company administration and colonial economy
Drain of wealth, famines and the nationalist economic critique
Practise 2 PYQsConcepts to cover
- Dadabhai Naoroji's drain theory and Poverty and Un-British Rule in India 1901
- R.C. Dutt's Economic History of India, M.G. Ranade, G. Subramania Iyer, G.V. Joshi and the press campaign
- Home charges, council bills, guaranteed railway interest and the export surplus as the channels of drain
- Great famines 1866, 1876-78, 1896-1900; Strachey 1880, Lyall 1898 and MacDonnell 1901 commissions; Famine Code
Where to study
India’s Struggle for Independence, 1857–1947 · Bipan Chandra and others
- ch. 7 An Economic Critique of Colonialism, pp. 91-101
A Brief History of Modern India · Rajiv Ahir (Spectrum)
- ch. 28 Economic Impact of British Rule in India
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, pp. 3-4 (printed 95-96)
- ch. 8 The Making of the National Movement: 1870s-1947, The Emergence of Nationalism, p. 3 (printed 95)
- ch. 8 The Making of the National Movement: 1870s-1947, The Emergence of Nationalism, p. 4 (printed 96)