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Discuss the view that the British rule brought about economic changes in India to serve the needs of the imperial economy and establish a dependent form of underdevelopment in this country.

  • UPSC 2000
  • Economic Impact of British Colonial Rule

Colonial rule did transform India's economy, but the direction of that transformation was set overwhelmingly by London's requirements rather than India's own developmental needs.

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  • Underdevelopment as Process, Not Absence
  • Deindustrialisation: From Manufacturing Nation to Raw-Material Supplier
  • Commercialisation of Agriculture for Metropolitan Needs
  • Railways and Foreign Trade as Instruments of Extraction
  • The Financial Architecture of Dependency
  • Historiographical Debate: How Complete Was the Dependency?

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