Ep 187: Dadabhai Naoroji and the Fight for India
The Seen and the Unseen - hosted by Amit Varma
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The Importance of the Empire of Cotton
Naroja was at the very end of the spigot. He saw wealth that had been drained out, you know, come to british shores and be disseminated through bank accounts. So there's a very vivid kind of understanding of how imperialism were when you are at the very heart of empire. The first proper speech that naroja gives on the drain of wealth, he doesn't even use the word drain. It is kind of in reflection to these two particular moments, and especially to the ariso famine. And so it sheds this view that british rule wasbenefiting india yet impoverishing the country as well.
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