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Who was India's first economic thinker?

  1. Dadabai Naoroji

  2. G. V. Joshi

  3. Muhammed Iqbal

  4. Madanlal Dhingra

  5. Dr. Ansari
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Dadabai Naoroji is widely regarded as India's first modern economic thinker. He developed the famous 'Drain Theory' in his seminal work 'Poverty and Un-British Rule in India' (1901), which systematically documented how Britain was draining wealth from India through unfair trade practices and taxation policies.

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