ABSTRACT
The British departed India reflected the persistent force of the independence movement which emerged out of the Indian National Congress that first met in 1885. Committed initially to achieving Indian objectives within the British Empire, the Congress gradually became the focus and fulcrum of Indian nationalist aspirations. The shifting of command at the apex of society, however, allowed the more forceful expression and pursuit of Indian interests which, in the light of their luxuriant variety, were no easy matter to reconcile. The centuries of modernization in Great Britain, then, there was a rough and ready rationing of public goals which had the effect of easing the burden imposed on the political system. The complexity of these problems is demonstrates in the tasks of economic development that confronted India after 1947. In India, the discussion and controversy about the drain initiated by Dadabhai Naoroji had disseminated the view that India's own economic development had held in thralldom to England's economic interest.
