ROMESH CHANDRA DUTT
R.C. Dutt belonged to an eminent educated Bengal family. He was born in 1848 in Calcutta. He joined the Indian Civil Service in 1869 and served in many capacities. In 1899, he was elected as the President of the Indian National Congress. In his later years, he was appointed as a lecturer in Indian History at the University of London. The economic ideas of Dutt are found in his two important books : (1) The Economic History of India - 2 volumes and (2) Famines in India - 2 volumes. Gadgil described Dutt's Economic History of India as "almost the first history of a colonial empire." Thus while the first book deals with the economics of colonisation, the second one deals with the conditions of agricultural population in India and the causes and remedies of famines on India. R.C. Dutt's another book "Famines in India" provided such a vivid description
RC Datt believed that there was a closed relationship between political and economic phenomena the social and economic equilibrium was dynamic.
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