Nature and Extent of Poverty during the British Period : The greatness of the nature and extent of poverty in a country depicts its underdevelopment. It can be said that the increase in poverty during the British period was a reason for economic backwardness. There was lack of estimates of poverty in the British period, but on the basis of information received from official figures, it can be said that the extent of poverty had increased during the British period. As there was lack of official data at that time, it is difficult to tell about the nature of poverty prevailing at that time. Scholars of social and economic standards, William Hunter and Sir Charles Eliot, have described poverty in their articles by which we come to know that people were victims of starvation at that time.
