Britain’s Industrial Revolution didn’t emerge from innovation alone—it was bankrolled by India’s wealth. From Bengal’s Diwani revenues to opium trade and cotton extraction, British industry rose on Indian poverty. This blog exposes the $45 trillion drain that built modern Britain while deindustrializing Bharat—an economic heist masked as civilization.
From 1765 onward, the Economy in British Raj was engineered for extraction. Through revenue systems, trade monopolies, and financial manipulation, Britain drained India’s wealth to fund its industrial rise. This blog unpacks how taxation, deindustrialization, and currency control turned a flourishing civilization into a colony that paid for its own subjugation — the greatest economic heist in history.