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What was the economic drain theory, and who put it forward?
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Answer
The drain theory held that a large part of India's wealth was being transferred to Britain without any equivalent return, through home charges, the salaries and pensions of British officials, and the profits of British capital. Dadabhai Naoroji set it out in his book Poverty and Un-British Rule in India.
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Explanation
R. C. Dutt developed the same argument in his economic history of India.
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