...Amitava Krishna Dutt The main economic ideas of Dadabhai Naoroji, Mahadev Govind Ranade, and Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi are discussed in terms of their analysis of poverty and its causes, their economic methodology, their normative ideas about development, and their prescriptions for fostering...

... Branch of the East India Association in 1876, Dadabhai Naoroji s Poverty of India sparked a series of attempts by both Indian and British economic specialists to measure India s wealth.1 More than an exercise in drawing up a national balance sheet, Naoroji s argu- ment showed how economic data could...

... of savings that exacerbated starvation during famines and prevented peasants from investing in more efficient agricultural techniques (Dutt 1901 : 118–19). This relates to the drain theory, associated with Dadabhai Naoroji, which gained popularity and support in this period. The drain theory argued...

... to the broader project of decolonization. Here, he borrowed from a long line of Indian thinkers who claimed that India s poverty was a consequence of British misrule. Starting in the late nineteenth century, in­uential writers, including Dad- abhai Naoroji and R. C. Dutt, argued that colonial taxation and trade...

... and exchange rates, and the management of credit and external payments during the years of the Great Depression. These dissenting voices also offered alternatives to the economic theories and policies adopted by the colonial government. For example, Dadabhai Naoroji s theses resembled in Sen s view what would...