History & Civics

Read the excerpt given below and answer the questions that follow: The romance is that there is security of life and property in India; the reality is that there is no such thing. There is security of life and property in one sense or way — i.e., the people are secure from any violence from each other or from Native despots... But from England's own grasp there is no security of property at all and, as a consequence, no security for life. India’s property is not secure. What is secure, and well secure, is that England is perfectly safe and secure, and does so with perfect security, to carry away from India, and to eat up in India, her property at the present rate of 30,0000,000 or 40,000,000 a year, .... I therefore venture to submit that India does not enjoy security of her property and life.... To millions in India life is simply 'half-feeding', or starvation, or famine and disease. — Dadabhai Naoroji (a) Who was Dadabhai Naoroji? According to Dadabhai Naoroji, in what sense ‘security of life and property’ prevails in India? (b) How is England ‘perfectly safe and secure’, as described in the excerpt by Naoroji? (c) Dadabhai Naoroji propounded a theory to describe the exploitative nature of British rule in India. Name it. Explain briefly the last line of the excerpt given above.

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