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“The hey-day of the British power in India was also the high noon of ‘Laissez faire’ economic doctrine.” Comment.

  • UPSC 1990
  • Economic Impact of British Colonial Rule

The statement links Britain's most confident imperial phase after 1858 to the dominance of free-trade ideology, but in India the doctrine functioned less as genuine state non-interference than as interference calibrated to imperial interest.

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