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Amount of Wealth Transferred from India to the United
Kingdom
II. Conquest by Deliberate Subjection.
Lord William Bentinck and Mr. W. Thackeray on what 'Ought
to be Suppressed' in the Indian Character; Subsequent
Adoption of the 'Suppression' Suggestion
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Indian Lack of Ambition and other Qualities-According to
James Mill.
Sir Thomas Munro and Bishop Heber to the Contrary
Thackeray and James Mill against Munro and Heber
The Big Words of the Charter Act of 1833
Mr. Robert Rickards on the Policy which should be adopted
Macaulay's Disclaimer of the 'Pousta' as a British Governing
A Choice between Prohibition and Cheating; Cheating Adopted
What We Choose to Believe concerning India is Alone Fact
For Bread & Stone-for Daily Food Powdered Rocks
Appendices:
I. 'Durbar Charges Unjustly Made'
II. Early Tributes to Indian Fitness for Official Positions:
(a) By John Sullivan, Collector of Coimbatore
(b) By W. Chaplin, Commissioner of Deccan
(c) By Major-General Sir L. Smith, K.C.B..
CHAPTER II.
THE BEGINNING OF A CENTURY: WHERE DOES INDIA STAND?
India in a Worse Position To-day than on January 1, 1801
A Condescension to Particulars:
(a) Wealth
(b) The Poverty of the People.
A Significant Contrast.
(c) National Industries
(d) Government Service
(e) Moral, Intellectual, and Spiritual, Position
Appendix:
How Lascars voyaging to England would suffer moral harm and
India material damage
TABLE OF CONTENTS
CHAPTER III.
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WHOSE IS THE AGRICULTURAL AND INDUSTRIAL WEALTH OF INDIA ?
Famine Losses in Ten Years; War Losses in One Hundred
and Ten Years.
Famine A Good Thing: There are Too Many People in India'. 120
The Exceptional Famine-Position of India: Famine Come to
Frequency Much Greater than in Past and Proceeding at
Accelerated Pace
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Sympathy 'Always with an Over-ruling Consideration for the
Revenue'
Famines Prior to British Rule
Sir George Campbell on Frequency'
The Famines of the Eighteenth Century
A Comparison between 1769-1800 and 1868-69-1900.
Famines of the First Half of the Nineteenth Century
Famines during Second Half of the Century
Over Twenty-Six Million Famine Deaths Officially Admitted
The Four Quarters of the Nineteenth Century Compared:
121
123
Two Famine Maps: First Famine and Last Famine of the
Nineteenth Century.
131
Estimate by the Lancet and the Friend of India of 19,000,000
Famine Deaths in past Ten Years.
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140
Famines More Destructive Now than in Ancient Days
Scarcity of Means more than Absence of Food Stores
British Supremacy Founded on Belief that a Dark Skin means a
Combined Evil Heart and Lack of Administrative Ability
and Common Honesty
Governmental Neglect to follow Recommendations of Famine
Commission of 1880.
141
142
The First Place' for Irrigation, but Railways favoured seven
times more than Irrigation.
143
Indian People now so Poor they Cannot Stand Any Strain
What Other Nations are Saying concerning our Indian Policy
and Its Fruits
145
147
Lord Curzon and his Begging Bowl
Is it Too Late to Bring India Back to Prosperity ?
Vox India Clamantis (Punch)
149
To the Honoured Memory of the Famine-Slain,
1891-1901.
150
I. Letter extracted from the Author's Correspondence with Sir
Henry Fowler
154
II. 'The Extreme, the Abject, the Awful, Poverty of the Indian
People.'-New England Magazine
III. What the Famine of 1877-78 cost-Madras chiefly
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170
CHAPTER V.
6 THE EXTRAORDINARY AMOUNT OF PRECIOUS METALS THAT IS
ABSORBED BY THE PEOPLE.'
Absentee Landlordism ;-Absorption of All Land Revenue
by England.
The Pons Asinorum concerning the Absorption of Gold and
Silver in India
Imports of Treasure not Evidence of Accumulating Wealth
Statistics concerning Imports of Gold and Silver from 1835 to
Coinage of Rupees at British Indian and Feudatory State Mints 182
Average Absorption' 34d. per head per annum !
xxxiii
Mr. Dadabhai Naoroji's Illustration for Puzzled 'Economists'
The Alleged Buried or Hoarded Wealth of India.
'The Total Absence of Anything Like Accumulated Wealth in
India.'-Sir Richard Strachey
Indian Wealth compared with British Wealth
Stop the Drain and There May Be a Chance of Wealth Accumu-
lating in India
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THE 'TRIBUTE': WHAT IT IS, HOW IT WORKS.
Average Length of Life in India and in England.
. . . not a fact to be found in support of Allegations' that
India is becoming Exhausted (Lord Geo. Hamilton)
'That Absurdity-about a Drain to England'
'An Administration Absolutely Unselfish'
Does India Really Pay a Tribute ?
The Symposium at the India Office in 1875
Lord Salisbury on 'Produce Exported without a Direct
Equivalent'
How the Mercantile Transaction Involving the Payment of
Tribute is Carried Through
The Viceroy and Secretary of State, as Money Brokers,
Negotiating the 'Investment'
The Tribute' Not All Gain to England; it does Serious
Mischief to Agriculture and British Farmers Suffer 201
The 'Drain' and Its Effects Recognised at the India Office in
1875 .
The Tribute which is so balefully weighing down the Indian
Exchange, . . . threatens to break the Indian camel's
back'
THE DRAIN': ITS EXTENT; ITS CONSEQUENCES.
Consumption of Salt-as Required and as Possible.
India's Position Unlike that of Any Other Country
More Preventable Suffering, More Hunger, More Insufficiently
Clothed Bodies, More Stunted Intellects, More Wasted
Lives, in India, than in Any Other Country
Mr. R. N. Cust on the 'Constant Draining Away of the Wealth
of India to England'
211
India Left Without Any Working Capital
212
The 'Drain' Recognised and Denounced by Englishmen in the
Eighteenth Century.
Excess of Exports .
How the India Office Money Goes
Five Weeks' Food Taken Every Year From Each Indian to
Pay India Office Charges
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A Revised Kipling Poem: 'Lord God, we ha' paid in full'
India's Average Annual Loss for Sixty-Five Years, year by year 223
Two Significant Pages from an Indian Blue Book photographic
reproduction)
India Denuded of Six Thousand Millions of Pounds Sterling
Sir George Campbell on the 'Drain'
Mr. J. A. Wadia on the Harm Done by Recent Currency Legis-
lation
Exhaustive Examination of Currency Legislation by Mr. Cecil
'Robbery of Indian Depositors and Automatic Extortion from
Indian Cultivators'.
This Legislation has 'Injured Every Class but the Moneylenders' 242
CHAPTER VIII.
NO TRADE WITH TWO HUNDRED MILLIONS OF THE INDIAN PEOPLE
-EXCEPT IN ONE ARTICLE.
A Pressing Question at Every Renewal of the Charter to the East
India Company
Sir Thomas Munro, Sir John Malcolm, and Mr. Rickards, on
Indian Trade and What It Will Never Do.
What Becomes of the Imports into British India? Who Takes
Them?
British and Europeanised-Indian Requirements: 171,000,000
171,000,000
People Almost Wholly Outside Import Influences
Analysis of the Imports, Item by Item
Actual Trade (apart from Cotton Cloths) of un-Europeanised
India, Under One Halfpenny per Head per Annum
The 'Prosperity' in India Not Indian Prosperity
Why India Did Not Take Advantage of the Spinning-Jenny and
Steam Engine when First Invented
James Mill Locking the Door against Indian Advancement in
India.
265
India's Exports: Whose Are They? Analysis of Every Article
of Export
268