Drain of wealth, famines and the nationalist economic critique
- Dadabhai Naoroji's drain theory and Poverty and Un-British Rule in India 1901
- Other economic critics
- Home charges, council bills, guaranteed railway interest and the export surplus as the channels of drain
- Famines and famine commissions
- Bengal famine of 1943: wartime food diversion, loss of imports, profiteering, rationing and colonial policy