unit-7-post-independence-india---continuity-and-change

Unit-7 Post-Independence India - Continuity And Change

Understand how modern India as we see it was formed on the basis of a struggle for freedom.

"The industrial base for post-independence developments was built up during the British times". Comment?

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Written on Apr 15, 2019 3:07:59 PM

The British had created a legal, communication and transport network to facilitate their tasks of creating a dependent colonial economy. There were also certain positive features which had developed alongside in the period in 1918-1930 when the British had been caught up in war. The features of this industrial development was the growth of several consumer industries such as textiles, sugar, soap, matches and paper. The features of this industrial development was the growth of several consumer industries such as textiles, sugar, soap, matches and paper. Interestingly these small capitalist entrepreneurs often emerged from old craftsmen, merchant, rich peasant and even landlords and zamindars. Furthermore, in contrast to the 19" century industrial development in the post 1918 period increasingly became oriented towards the internal or home-market and this too on the basis of indigenous raw materials.