Multiple choice

Who among the following estimated Indian National Income and criticised the constant drain of wealth from India to England?

  1. Gandhiji

  2. Gokhale

  3. Dadabhai Naoroji

  4. Bal Gangadhar Tilak
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Explanation

Dadabhai Naoroji, known as the 'Grand Old Man of India', was the first to systematically calculate India's national income and expose the 'Drain Theory' in his work 'Poverty and Un-British Rule in India'. He proved how Britain was systematically draining wealth from India.

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