"British rule increased poverty in India." Review this statement in light of the facts.

Review: "British Rule Increased Poverty in India" (Colonial Economic Drain):

Empirical evidence and economic data validate that two centuries of British East India Company and Crown rule engineered the massive impoverishment (Pauperization) of India:

• 1. Collapse of Global GDP Share: India's share of world GDP plummeted from ~27% in 1700 A.D. (Mughal era) to a meager $<3$ in 1947 at Independence.
• 2. Extreme Agrarian Destitution & High Taxes: Rigid, extortionate land revenue settlements (Permanent Settlement, Ryotwari) extracting up to 50% of gross agricultural produce, trapping peasants in perpetual debt cycles with local moneylenders.
• 3. Recurrent Catastrophic Famines: Over 25 major famines occurred under British rule killing $>30 ext{ million}$ people (e.g., Great Bengal Famine of 1770 killing 10 million; Bengal Famine of 1943 killing 3 million due to Churchill's grain diversions).
• 4. Economic Drain of Wealth: Dadabhai Naoroji (Poverty and Un-British Rule in India) and R.C. Dutt demonstrated that millions of pounds sterling were drained annually out of India without any economic return.