'Prosperous' British India

1901 book July 2019 {{Infobox book | name = 'Prosperous' British India: A Revelation from Official Records | border = yes | author = William Digby | country = England | language = English | subject = 19th Century India | publisher = T. Fisher Unwin | pub_date = 1901 | image = 'Prosperous' British India.png | caption = Title page for Prosperous' British India: A Revelation from Official Records (1901) }}Prosperous' British India, more completely titled Prosperous' British India: A Revelation from Official Records''', was a book published in 1901 by British author William Digby that described the economic conditions prevailing in British India in the latter half of the nineteenth century under British rule.'Prosperous' British India: A Revelation from Official Records William Digby 1901 Unwin https://archive.org/details/ProsperousBritishIndiaARevelationWilliamDigby ... Thus England's unbounded prosperity owes its origin to her connection with India, whilst it has, largely, been maintained - disguisedly - from the same source, from the middle of the eighteenth century to the present time. 'Possibly, since the world began, no investment has ever yielded the profit reaped from the Indian plunder' ... It used official government statistics to illuminate the falling incomes and increasing impoverishment in India under British administration during that period. The book was influential and, at the time, attracted attention due to the imprinting of the actual falling per-capita income statistics in gold on the spine of the book itself.The Cambridge Economic History of India: Volume 2, C.1751-c.1970 Tapan Raychaudhuri Tapan Raychaudhuri Irfan Habib Dharma Kumar 1983 Cambridge University Press 9780521228022 https://books.google.com/books?id=9ew8AAAAIAAJ ... As Daniel Thorner has remarked, where can one find a more dramatic presentation of conclusions than that of William Digby, who had imprinted in gold on the spine of his book the per capita income of 'Prosperous' British India in 1850 as 2d, 1882 as 1 2d, and 1900 as less than 3 4d? ... The book also used government statistics to demonstrate that the death-toll and frequency of catastrophic economic disasters in India, such as famines, was growing systematically under British rule.Hunger: A Modern History James Vernon 2009 Harvard University Press 9780674044678 https://books.google.com/books?id=ZPtV4cGU4LIC 51 ... Whereas Dutt used the Famine Commission Reports of 1880 and 1898 to catalogue a melancholy 'record of twenty-two famines within a period of 130 years of British rule in India,' Digby dug deeper into colonial records, to reveal not only that the toll — twenty-six famines in the century preceding 1900 — was even graver, but that the scale and frequency of famines had grown and accelerated ... See also William Digby (writer) The Poverty Problem in India'' Poverty in India British Raj References Category:1901 non-fiction books Category:Books about India Category:Poverty in India