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Economic changes in India from the late 1920s influenced the course of the country’s politics. Elucidate.

  • UPSC 1995
  • Economic Impact of British Colonial Rule

The years after 1927–29 saw India's colonial economy pass through a series of shocks that fed directly, and often decisively, into the shape and intensity of nationalist politics through the 1930s and beyond.

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  • The Great Depression and Agrarian Distress
  • The Rupee-Sterling Exchange Ratio Controversy
  • The Rise of Organised Business-Nationalist Politics
  • Constitutional and Institutional Consequences

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