In which year the book 'Poverty and Unbritish Rule in India' was published ? A. 1900

The correct answer is B) 1901 A.D. Dadabhai Naoroji's Poverty and Un-British Rule in India was published in London in 1901. It collects his arguments on the 'drain of wealth', the idea that revenue extracted from India and spent abroad, through home charges and the costs of the British establishment, impoverished the country.

Why the others fail:

• 1902 and 1903 are near misses that tempt guessing, but the book's publication year is 1901.
• The option 'A) D' in the paper is garbled and is not a valid year, so it can be ignored.

Concept: the drain theory, which links colonial economic policy to mass poverty. For Mains, it is central to questions on the colonial economy, the nationalist economic critique, and the evolution of Indian economic thought from Naoroji to Ranade and Gokhale.

Trap: aspirants pick a year near the early Congress period or confuse the book with Naoroji's earlier papers on poverty, which appeared in different forms. Anchor the date to the book itself.