भारत में अंग्रेजी राज का संक्षिप्त बही-खाता || THE BALANCE SHEET OF BRITISH RULE IN INDIA
THE BALANCE SHEET OF BRITISH RULE IN INDIA Some main items: 1) Englishmen drain from India and take to England every year 50 crores of rupees ($167 million); consequently the Hindus have become so poor that the daily average income per capita is only 5 paisa (2.5 cents) 2) The land tax is more than 65 percent of the net produce. 3) The expenditure for 240 million (24 crore population) person on Education: 7¾ crores of rupees ($25,000,000) Sanitation: 2 crore of rupees ($6,000,000) But on army: 29 ½ crore of rupees ($97,000,000) 4) Under British rule, the famines are ever on the increase, and in the last ten years 20 million (2 crore) men, women and children have died of starvation. 5) From the plagues, 8 million (80 lakh) deaths have occurred during the last sixteen years, and the death rate during the last 30 years has steadily increased from the 24 per mile to upto 34 per mile. 6) Means