Read the excerpt given below and answer the question that follows:

"From the mid-18th century, it was a European corporation, the East India Company - run from the City of London by merchants and accountants, with their ledgers and careful accounting - that ran amok and seized and subjugated a fragmented and divided India in what was probably the supreme act of corporate violence in history."
—William Dalrymple

(a) What term is used to describe the East India Company's act of running India's trade and finance from the city of London? How did it work?

(b) What was its impact on the artisans and craftsmen?

(c) The author has described the East India Company's act as 'Corporate violence'. What term was used by Dadabhai Naoroji for such an act? Describe how it worked.

To benefit British industry, British rule pursued a policy of free trade in India. The nationalists were generally concerned about the lack of public investment in agriculture and argued that the British were trying to turn India into a valuable source of raw materials and a consumer of British-manufactured goods to make India an extension of the British economy.

(Source: History of Modern India by Bipin Chandra.)

Discuss how the British empire deindustrialised India.

Name the Indian reformer who is regarded as "Father of Indian Nationalism."

How did the introduction of English as the medium of instruction help the Indians?