Question : In pre-independent India, Dadabhai Naoroji was the first to discuss the concept of a ______.
Option 1: bread line
Option 2: Subsistence level
Option 3: Poverty line
Option 4: Living wage
Correct Answer: Poverty line
Solution : The correct answer is the Poverty line.
Dadabhai Naoroji estimated the poverty line for the first time in his book "Poverty and UnBritish Rule in India." He estimated from ₹16 to ₹35 per capita annually.
The expense of subsistence or the minimum essential diet (rice or flour, dal, mutton, vegetables, ghee, vegetable oil, and salt) was the basis for the poverty line he advocated.
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