History & Civics
With reference to the picture given here, answer the following questions:
(a) Identify the person in the picture.
(b) Fill in the blanks: He came to be known as 'the Grand ……….'.
(c) Name the classic work (book) authored by him.
(d) Name a magazine started by him.
(e) Name a famous economic theory propounded by him, mentioning any four ways in which India's wealth was being taken away to England, as the author of that famous book points out.
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(a) The person in the picture is Dadabhai Naoroji.
(b) He came to be known as 'the Grand Old Man of India'.
(c) The famous book authored by him is 'Poverty and Un-British Rule in India'.
(d) He started the magazine 'Dharm Marg Darshak'.
(e) Through his famous 'Drain Theory', Dadabhai Naoroji explained how India's wealth was being taken away to England in these forms:
- Salaries payable to the members of the India Council.
- Dispatch of savings to England by British personnel posted in India.
- Pensions to British Officers.
- Payments to the War Office for the maintenance of British troops in India.
- Profits of the British Trading Agencies.
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