– He started

  The first point he raised was that how being a colony affects the economy of a country. He did not have to go far to fetch the examples as the data from India was staring blankly at him. India’s share of the world economy before she became a colony of the British Empire was 23 %, and after the Independence it came out to be below 4%.   These mere numbers on a very broad sense may not infer much, but if one gives a real close look to it, he can understand what it meant to be turning from “a golden sparrow” to “a ragged and tired bird”.   He continued by stating that the rise of the British Empire was built on the very foundation, which suppressed India. The very concept of Industrialization came into reality when they “de-industrialized” their own colonies.   Before the merchants became rulers, India’s weavers used to enjoy a reputation never earned by anyone else, their quality never matched by anyone else. Britishers came, they conquered and they smashed the tools of those weavers, their own livelihoods, the cruel taxes became the monsters of their nightmares. The reason was simple- they did all that, so that, far across from India, the British Empire could prosper as the world leading exporter of finished cloth. And at the back stage of it, India was forced into to be the biggest importer of the products from them.