'The Rise and Growth of Economic Nationalism in India' was written by

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Correct — D, Bipin Chandra. The book is 'The Rise and Growth of Economic Nationalism in India: Economic Policies of Indian National Leadership, 1880–1905', first published in 1966 by the historian Bipan Chandra (the paper prints the name as 'Bipin', but the author himself signed it Bipan Chandra). It is the standard study of the economic critique of colonialism — Chandra worked through the speeches, journalism and evidence of the early Congress leadership and showed that men like Dadabhai Naoroji, M.G. Ranade, R.C. Dutt and G. Subramania Iyer had built a systematic economic case against British rule: the drain of wealth, the de-industrialisation of Indian handicrafts, a tariff and railway policy tilted towards British capital, and a land-revenue and Home Charges burden that impoverished the countryside. His argument — that this economic critique, not merely constitutional grievance, was the intellectual foundation of Indian nationalism — is why the book remains prescribed reading for the modern-history syllabus.

Why the other options are wrong — (a) Partha Sarathi Gupta was a historian of British imperialism and of the British labour movement, and of the imperial armed forces — a different field from the economic thought of the early Indian nationalists. He did not write this book.  (b) Sarvepalli Gopal, the son of S. Radhakrishnan, was a diplomatic and political historian best known for his three-volume biography of Jawaharlal Nehru and for his work on British policy in India. His subject was high politics and biography, not the economic writings of the Moderates.  (c) B.R. Nanda, founder-director of the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, was pre-eminently a biographer — of Mahatma Gandhi, of Gokhale, and of the Nehrus. Biography, not economic history, is his signature, and this title is not his.

Concept: 'Economic nationalism' is the name historians give to the argument, developed between roughly 1880 and 1905, that British rule was not merely politically unrepresentative but economically extractive. Its components were the drain of wealth (India's surplus transferred to Britain as Home Charges, remittances, pensions and profits), de-industrialisation (the destruction of Indian handicrafts by free-trade tariff policy), and a fiscal and infrastructure policy built for imperial rather than Indian needs. Bipan Chandra's book is the study that assembled this scattered polemic into a coherent body of thought and treated the Moderates as serious economic analysts rather than as timid petitioners.

State PCS 2019 Q62 — History PYQ with Answer

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