- Exposed the economic exploitation of India by the British.
- Interpreted the ancient Indian texts and restored the self-confidence of Indians.
- Stressed the need for eradication of all the social evils before anything else.
Which of the statement(s) given above is/ are correct?
(a) 1 only
(b) 2 and 3 only
(c) 1 and 3 only
(d) 1, 2 and 3
44. Answer: (a)
The early intellectuals of the first half of the nineteenth century supported British rule under the impression that it would modernise the country based on the latest technology and capitalist economic organisation. After the 1860s, disillusionment started to set in among the politically conscious and they began to probe into the reality of British rule in India.
Option (a) is correct: The foremost among these economic analysts was Dadabhai Naoroji, the ‘Grand Old Man of India’, who after a brilliant analysis of the colonial economy put forward the theory of economic drain in Poverty and Under British Rule in India and exposed the economic exploitation of India by the British.
