Pre-Study: What to Study

10 Subtopics · 37 Concepts

Deindustrialisation—Ruin of Artisans and Handicraftsmen5 Concepts

• Transformation into a Colonial Economy

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• One-Way Free Trade and the Flood of British Goods

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• Deindustrialisation Without Modern Industrialisation

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• Ruralisation and Pressure on Land

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• Views on the Ruin of Indian Crafts (Bentinck, Buchanan, Tharoor)

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Impoverishment of Peasantry2 Concepts

• Permanent Settlement and Insecurity of Tenants

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• Moneylenders and the Triple Burden on the Peasant

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Emergence of Intermediaries, Absentee Landlordism, Ruin of Old Zamindars1 Concept

• New Zamindars, Sub-Infeudation and Absentee Landlordism

  Importance 3/5 What to Study

Stagnation and Deterioration of Agriculture1 Concept

• Causes of Stagnant Agricultural Productivity

  Importance 3/5 What to Study

Famine and Poverty1 Concept

• Famines Under Colonial Rule

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Commercialisation of Indian Agriculture3 Concepts

• Meaning and Crops of Commercialisation of Agriculture

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• Factors Encouraging Commercialisation

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• Effects of Commercialisation on the Peasant (Cotton Boom and Deccan Riots)

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Destruction of Industry and Late Development of Modern Industry7 Concepts

• Destruction of Textile and Shipbuilding Industries

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• Restrictions on the Indian Steel Industry

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• Indian Traders, Moneylenders and Bankers as Junior Partners

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• First Modern Industries and Managing Agencies

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• Reasons for the Inflow of Foreign Capital

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• Indian-Owned Industries and Their Handicaps

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• Lopsided Industrial Development and New Social Classes

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Nationalist Critique of Colonial Economy8 Concepts

• Early Nationalist Economic Analysts and Their Works

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• Meaning and Components of the Economic Drain

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• Effects of the Drain and Nationalist Estimates of Its Size

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• Nationalist View of Nineteenth-Century Colonialism

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• Poverty as a National Issue and the Case Against Foreign Capital

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• Nationalist Critique of Foreign Trade and Railways

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• Critique of Free Trade, Tariff and Financial Policy

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• Views on the Drain (Naoroji, Sullivan, Wingate, Dutt and Others)

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Economic Issue a Stimulant to National Unrest2 Concepts

• Economic Critique and the Moral Foundation of British Rule

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• From Share in Power to Demand for Self-Rule

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Stages of Colonialism in India7 Concepts

• Stages of Colonialism and Their Overlap

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• First Stage: Names, Period and Objectives

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• First Stage: Limited Changes, Drain and the Weavers

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• Second Stage: Name, Period and Purpose

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• Second Stage: Dominant Features

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• Third Stage: Changes in the World Economy

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• Third Stage: Foreign Investment, Reactionary Rule and Trusteeship

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