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1 Economic Policies of British Raj

What’s Inside

• Introduction

• Land Revenue Settlements

• Commercialization of Agriculture

• Deindustrialization

• Drain of Wealth

INTRODUCTION

The consolidation of the Company Raj in the Indian subcontinent was simultaneously succeeded by an extensive set of policies, which were geared towards the primary goal of the British in India; economic exploitation.

The grant of diwani fundamentally changed the trade profile and balance between the subcontinent and the England. Pre-1765, the British East India Company use to bring tons of bullion to the subcontinent, in absence of any viable commodity to be sold ...