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24 Soc. Change 3 (1994)

handle is hein.journals/sclcnge24 and id is 1 raw text is: 3 Social Change : March-June 1994: Vol. 24 Nos. I & 2 Jharkhander katha : Swadeshi colonialisation* Amar Kumar Singh** The historical development of Jharkhand region as a cultural, political and administrative unit has been discussed. The exploitation of Jharkhand by North Bihar and Government of India is similar to the exploitation of India by the British. The exploitation of Jharkhand has increased in post-Independence India due to developmental projects benefitting migrants from North Bihar. Political responses of the Jharkhand people against their exploitation have been discussed with reference to State Re-organisation Commission (SRC), Committee on Jharkhand Matters (COJM), Jharkhand Area Development Council Bill (JADC) 1991, and Jharkhand Area Autonomous Council (JAAC) Bill 1994. The permanent solution of the Jharkhand problem is creation of a separate state within the Union of India. 1.1. British colonialisation of India The economic exploitation of India had been one of the strongest raison d 'etre against the British raj and the leitmotiv of Indian nationalism and freedom movement. The economic exploitation of India has been well-documented. (Deoshkar 1908/1987; Dutt, 1940/1986; Habib, 1985; Naoroji, 1901; Sen, 1992; Tomlinson, 1993). India was the foundation stone of the British Empire. Lord Curzon had written in 1894: Just as De Tocqueville remarked that the conquest and government of India are really the achievements which have given to England her place in the opinion of the world, so the prestige and the wealth arising from her Asiatic position are the foundation stones of the British Empire. Again in 1989 he wrote: India is the pivot of our Empire. If the Empire loses any other part of its Dominion we can survive, but if we lose India, the sun of our Empire will have set. Quoted in Dutt R.P. (1940/1986, p.9) The economic condition of India upto the eighteenth century was quite advanced, there was arrested economic development upto the end of the ninteenth century (Anstey, 1911). Dutt has described in detail The Plunder of India (1940/86 pp. 98-116). Habib (1985) has calculated that the drain from India in 1882 amounted to Rs.1,355 million (in 1946-7 prices), which was more than four percent of national income that year. The drain was around 18 million pounds out of an estimated total national income of 120 million pounds in 1900 (Goldsmith, 1983). Nehru (1946/94) had argued that the industrial revolution in England was based on the plunder of Bengal and the British raj caused destruction of India's industry and decay of its agriculture (The Discovery offndia, pp.295-302). * Dr. M.K. Jabbi, Mr. N. Mandal and Mr. R.S. Sorni of Council for Social Development and Dr. Meera Jayaswal and Ms. Shriti Choudhary of R archi University helped in the preparation of this paper. ** Executive Chairperson, Council for Social Development, 53 Lodi Estate, NEW DELHI-I 10003 and President, Jharkhand Development Institute, M-25 Bariatu Housing Colony, RANCHI-834009. Digitized from Best Copy Available

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