The Rise and Growth of Economic Nationalism in India

Contents: Preface. 1. The poverty of India. 2. Industry-I. 3. Industry-II. 4. Foreign trade. 5. Railways. 6. Tariffs. 7. Currency and exchange. 8. Labour. 9. Agriculture-I. 10. Agriculture-II. 11. Public finance-I. 12. Public finance-II. 13. The drain. 14. Indian political economy. 15. Economic nationalism. Bibliography. Index.

If the political ideas of a people are shaped by the economic realities that surround them, then, the histories of the Indian national movement published hitherto cannot quite be regarded as either satisfactory or complete. A study of the economic policies of the Indian national leadership is therefore imperative to the understanding of the basis of the national movement and its development in the formative stages.

The present work probably the first major attempt to study the gradual development over the period 1880-1905 of the nationalist understanding of the economic basis and policies of British imperialism in India and the evolution of an alternative nationalist programme for the development of an independent national economy. It also provides an insight into the quality of the intellect and of the political and intellectual integrity of such pioneers of the national movement as Dadabhai Naoroji, Gokhale, Tilak Subramanya Iyer, et al. (jacket)