Sign in with Facebook
![Book cover for गोदान [Godan]](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1480617601l/33220021._SX98_.jpg "गोदान [Godan]")
“Agricultural taxes amounted at a minimum to half the gross produce and often more, leaving the cultivator less food than he needed to support himself and his family; British estimates conceded that taxation was two or three times higher than it had ever been under non-British rule, and unarguably higher than in any other country in the world.”
― An Era of Darkness: The British Empire in India
― An Era of Darkness: The British Empire in India
“Empire was in many ways the vehicle for the extension of British social structures to the colonies they conquered.”
― An Era of Darkness: The British Empire in India
― An Era of Darkness: The British Empire in India
“The extensive and detailed calculations of William Digby, the British writer, pointed to the diminishing prosperity of the Indian people and the systematic expropriation of India’s wealth by Britain—including the telling fact that the salary of the Secretary of State for India in 1901, paid for by Indian taxes, was equivalent to the average annual income of 90,000 Indians.”
― An Era of Darkness: The British Empire in India
― An Era of Darkness: The British Empire in India
“the foremost Indian research institution under the British empire, the Indian Institute of Science, was endowed by the legendary Jamsetji Tata, not by any British philanthropist, let alone by the colonial government.”
― An Era of Darkness: The British Empire in India
― An Era of Darkness: The British Empire in India
“Half of India’s revenues went out of India, mainly to England. Indian taxes paid not only for the British Indian Army in India, which was ostensibly maintaining India’s security, but also for a wide variety of foreign colonial expeditions in furtherance of the greater glory of the British empire, from Burma to Mesopotamia. In 1922, for instance, 64 per cent of the total revenue of the Government of India was devoted to paying for British Indian troops despatched abroad. No other army in the world, as Durant observed at the time, consumed so large a proportion of public revenues.”
― An Era of Darkness: The British Empire in India
― An Era of Darkness: The British Empire in India
Ankit’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Ankit’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
Ankit hasn't connected with their friends on Goodreads, yet.
Favorite Genres
Polls voted on by Ankit
Lists liked by Ankit
