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“Our system acts very much like a sponge, drawing up all the good things from the banks of the Ganges, and squeezing them down on the banks of the Thames.” Comment.

  • UPSC 1985
  • Economic Impact of British Colonial Rule

This vivid metaphor, attributed to a nineteenth-century British commentator on Indian administration, is the plainest contemporary statement of what Indian economists came to call the "Drain of Wealth."

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