How Britain Secretly Destroyed the World's Richest Country
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Published1 month ago
Duration10:24
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Languageen
CategoryEducation
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#history facts#british empire#colonialism#india history#economic history#east india company#drain of wealth#british india#mughal empire#decolonization#world history#historical facts#geopolitics#india britain#ancient civilizations#what did britain do to india#british empire explained#how britain stole from india#india's lost wealth#history of british colonialism
Description
Today we are going to take a look on The Empire That Stole $45 Trillion.
Britain secretly destroyed the world's richest country. India's wealth, once a quarter of global GDP, was systematically extracted over centuries. This video reveals the hidden history of how the East India Company and later the British Crown orchestrated this unprecedented transfer of wealth.
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• Dadabhai Naoroji, Parsi merchant and MP, coined "Drain of Wealth" in 1901.
• Economist Utsa Patnaik calculated $45 trillion flowed from India to Britain (1765-1938).
• Permanent Settlement (1793) introduced fixed, unavoidable tax demands.
• Bengal Famine of 1770 killed 10 million, exacerbated by Company grain exports.
• Macaulay's education policy (1835) aimed to create "Indian in blood, English in taste.
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