Who Benefited from the British Empire?
Gresham College Lectures
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The Hypocrisy of the British
He said the current rule of India was un-British. In what ways was it un-British? Well, because Britain was impoverishing India by draining out of India 30 million pounds a year. Taxes were raised in India and spent in the United Kingdom. This drain was continued by a large deficit on trade between India and Britain. The opium trade fills up England's drain. India derives not a particle of benefit. On top of that, he said, India clearly needed railways as in the United States of America. But there was a difference about the way in which railways were provided,. he said, in India as against the U.S.
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