[This essay Some Thoughts on The Drain of Wealth: Colonial India and Imperial Britain was published in the World History Bulletin (WHB) Spring 2004 (Vol XX No1). The WHB is published by World History Association (WHA), USA]
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Imperial Issues & Economic Consequences:
Britain in India was the significant central power. It [...]
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Colonial India and Imperial Britain (Part 4)
Colonial India and Imperial Britain (Part 3)
[This essay Some Thoughts on The Drain of Wealth: Colonial India and Imperial Britain was published in the World History Bulletin (WHB) Spring 2004 (Vol XX No1). The WHB is published by World History Association (WHA), USA]
© Anup Mukherjee
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A major critique of the drain by the Nationalists was built around the [...]
Colonial India and Imperial Britain (Part 2)
[This essay Some Thoughts on The Drain of Wealth: Colonial India and Imperial Britain was published in the World History Bulletin (WHB) Spring 2004 (Vol XX No1). The WHB is published by World History Association (WHA), USA]
© Anup Mukherjee
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Another important aspect of the economic exploitation was the process of deindustrialisation. Certain [...]
Colonial India and Imperial Britain (Part 1)
[This essay Some Thoughts on The Drain of Wealth: Colonial India and Imperial Britain was published in the World History Bulletin (WHB) Spring 2004 (Vol XX No1). The WHB is published by World History Association (WHA), USA]
© Anup Mukherjee
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The Drain of Wealth Theory:
The Drain of Wealth theory is a set [...]
Literature, Nationhood and Imperialism
To deny the concept of nationhood that stood in binary opposition to the enterprise of imperialism is basically to deny imperialism and to see the whole imperial enterprise as a foreign rule. When we do a social-history study of colonialism as regards India, we must have some basic factual understanding.
Often in interdisciplinary studies, scholars tend [...]
Critiquing Imperialism
Critiquing Imperialism © Anup Mukherjee
[The Essay titled Empire: An Artful Statecraft was written in response to Niall Ferguson's article in the April 2003 Issue of Historically Speaking. Only an edited part of the essay was published as letter to the editor in the September 2003 issue of Historically Speaking. It is also available in electronic [...]
