British Laissez-Faire Policies Worsen Famines
Subject
Indian National Movement
Chapter
Advent of the Europeans
- Colonial state followed non-intervention policy in trade since 1833
- Government applied laissez-faire principles to famine relief
- Western-educated Indians argued British policies impoverished India
- Orissa famine killed one-third of region's population
- Dadabhai Naoroji initiated research on Indian poverty after Orissa famine