![]() ![]() ![]() For perspective, $45 trillion is 17 times more than the total annual gross domestic product of the United Kingdom today. Drawing on nearly two centuries of detailed data on tax and trade, Patnaik calculated that Britain drained a total of nearly $45 trillion from India during the period 1765 to 1938. ![]() New research by the renowned economist Utsa Patnaik – just published by Columbia University Press – deals a crushing blow to this narrative. So the fact that the empire was sustained for so long – the story goes – was a gesture of Britain’s benevolence. If anything, the administration of India was a cost to Britain. There is a story that is commonly told in Britain that the colonisation of India – as horrible as it may have been – was not of any major economic benefit to Britain itself. ![]()
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