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
- Bengal famine of 1943: wartime food diversion, loss of imports, profiteering, rationing and colonial policy