![]() ![]() This drain of resources left India poorer. Likewise, the British-Indian state paid a sum of money every year to Britain for services like interest on public debt or salaries of expatriate military officers. The Free Trade policy of the Empire ruined India’s artisans and enabled Britain to build a world-leading textile industry (Chapter 1). It continued via unequal trade and general extraction in the 19th century. The looting began with the “plunder” of Indian wealth by East India Company officers like Robert Clive. Britain’s “looting” of India led to this disaster, Tharoor writes. ![]() So states Shashi Tharoor on the cover of this book. By 1947, after two centuries of British rule, it had decreased six fold. In the eighteenth century, India’s share of the world economy was as large as Europe’s. Shashi Tharoor, Inglorious Empire: What the British Did to India. ![]()
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