Poverty And Unbritish Rule in India

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Dadabhai Naoroji’s analysis of the causes of the poverty of india THE POVERTY OF INDIA Total Production of India, 1—Calcutta Statistical Committee, Agricultural Tables, 2-Fallacy of its Statistics, 3—How Statistics Should be Compiled 3—Central Provinces, Food Produce, etc., 4—Punjab, Do., 4— North-West Provinces, Do., 7—Bengal, Do., 11 —Madras, Do., 13— Bombay, Do., 15—Oudh, Do., 20—Summary, 21-Other Items of India's Wealth, 22-Income per Head. 22—Necessary consumption , 23—Cost of Subsistence, 25—Subsistence per Head, 26— Proportion of Children to Adults, 28-Production Compared with Cost of Living. 28-Deficit of Imports Compared with the exports of India,29-The Drain to England, 30-Increase of the Drain, 31—Small Amount of Imports from England, 33-India's Tribute, 34-The Elements of the Drain, 35-Official Opinion on the Drain, 35-Bengal, 35—Bombay, 40—Madras, 43—Punjab, 44—N. W. Provinces, 46—Central Provinces,46-India, 46-Condition of England under a Similar Drain, 48—Drain through Investment of English Capital, 50-The Moral Drain, 52— Pressure of Taxation, 54-A Fair Comparison with Other Nations, 55—Not True Free Trade, 57—Prices, 57- Causes of High Prices, 58-Fluctuation in Price of Cotton, 60—Price of Coffee, 60—of Indigo, 61—of Rice, 61—of Silk, 62—of Sugar, 63—of Linseed, 63—of Rapeseed, 63—of Wool, 64— of Indian Tea, 64—Causes of Local Rise in Prices, 64—Normal Decrease in Prices under British Rule, 67—Average Prices, 74—Higher Prices Due to Scarcity, 75-Higher Prices Due to Famine, 76 = Wages, 77—in Bengal, 77—in Bombay; 78—in Punjab, 79-in the Central Provinces, 80- Bullion, 81-Export of Bullion, 84-Non-fulfilment of Solemn Promises, 85-Macaulay on Employment of Native Indians, 85—The Duke of Argyll's Promises, 89—Suspension of the Nine Scholarships, 94—The Uncovenanted Service, 97—The Engineering Service, 98—Madras, 104—Roorkee Engineering College, 104—Bengal, 107— The Native Medical Service, 109— Telegraph and Forest Services, 115—Reply to Criticisms on "The Poverty of India", 117. THE CONDITION OF INDIA Prefatory Note, 135-Letter to the Marquis of Hartington, 136— Administration Report of Punjab, 1876-77, 137—Memorandum and Criticism of India Office Figures and Statistics, 166— Railways, 180— Foreign Trade, 182—The Moral Poverty of India and Native Thoughts on the Present British Indian Policy, 190—Memorandum on a Few Statements in the Report of the Indian Famine Commission, 1880,205 SIR M. E. GRANT DUFF'S VIEWS ABOUT INDIA Poverty of India, 217—Trade Statistics of India, 239. SPEECHES IN THE HOUSE OF COMMONS Fast India Revenue Account, 259- Amendment to the Address, 278. ROYAL COMMISSION ON THE ADMINISTRATION OF EXPENDITURE IN INDIA Letters to Lord Welby : No. I, 292; No. II, 304; No. III, 305— Production and Distribution, 306—Crops under Cultivation in 1893-94, 310—Letters to Lord Welby : No. IV, 325; No. V, 347; No. VI, 361— Appendix : "Indian Affairs" (The Times, Oct. 5, 1896), 376—Letter to Lord Welby, No. VII, 379—Summary, 435—Appendix: Simultaneous Examinations in India and in England, 442—Correspondence with the War Office, 462—Correspondence with the Admiralty, 480—Expenditure on Wars Beyond the Indian Frontiers, 497—Cost of the Forward iv Policy, 500—Indian Currency, 504—No. 1, Statement Submitted to the Indian Currency Committee of 1898, 505; Appendix A : Indian Exchanges, 522; Appendix B : Heavy Taxation, 535; Appendix C : The Currency Question, 538—No. II, Statement Submitted to the Indian Currency Committee of 1898, 542—The State and Government of India under its Native Rulers, 555—Some Further Opinions on the Subject of Native Rulers and British Rule, 589, A SELECTION FROM ADDRESSEES No. 1, Address at Manchester, 603—No. 2, The Condition or India (Westbourne Park Chapel), 611—-No. 3, "India Must be Bled" (United Methodist Free Church, Walthamstow), 617—No. 4, Address at Plumstead, 622—No. 5, The Indian Famine (Kennington), 627.