Maddison says India’s share of world GDP was 24.4% in 1700 before British rule but fell to 4.2% by 1950. Tharoor says, “The reason was simple. India was governed for the benefit of Britain.

It is not very often that an Indian politician says nice words about the British conquest of India and the Raj. This makes the comments by the Bharatiya Janata Party’s Krishnagar (West Bengal ...

For income, the economists looked at annual tax tabulations released by both the British and Indian governments since 1922. They found that even during the highest recorded period of inequality in ...

Blood, division, impoverishment are the ones that strike me when I think of the Raj. Nag, India. Every one who thinks British rule was good for India, I ask you only one question, imagine yourself ...

Instead, it led to a complex discussion on the impact of Britain’s colonisation of Ireland, and the Raj in India. The irony ...

The success of “RRR,” set during the British Raj, has sparked a new wave of apologia for British colonialism. ... Gandhi leading the famous Salt March in 1930 to protest British rule in India.

Analyze changes in Indian society and economy under British rule. 7-12 Explain the social, economic, and intellectual sources of Indian nationalism and analyze reactions of the British government ...

It was, however, a move that only gave birth to an equally brutal force – the British Raj. One of the Raj’s first acts in 1858 was to set up a penal colony on the Andaman and Nicobar Islands ...