Dr. Manishika Jain in this lecture NCERT Class 11 Economics Chapter 1: Indian Economy on Eve of Independence
Understand historical backdrop
Britishers turned India into raw material supplier for their own industrial development – exploitative nature of development

Before British Advent
Agriculture
Handicraft – cotton & silk, metal & precious stone
Had worldwide market – fine quality & high standards of craftsmanship
Muslin (from Dhaka – now in Bangladesh) – finest quality as malmal – known as malmal khas or malmal shahi

British Advent
Protect & promote British interest
Transform India into supplier of raw materials and consumer of finished industrial products from Britain
No sincere effort to measure national & per capita income
Some efforts Dadabhai Naoroji, William Digby, Findlay Shirras, V.K.R.V. Rao (most significant estimates) and R.C. Desai
Country’s growth of aggregate real output during the first half of 20th century was less than 2% & ½% growth in per capita output per year


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Chapters:
0:00 Introduction: NCERT Class 11 Economics Chapter 1: Indian Economy on Eve of Independence
0:19 Understand Historical Backdrop
2:23 Before British Advent
3:04 British Advent
4:02 Agricultural Sector (British Impact)
5:46 Industrial Sector (British Impact)
7:39 Foreign Trade
9:35 Demography
10:46 Occupational Structure
11:32 Infrastructure
13:51 Challenges in Summary


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