UKPSC PCS 2025 · Question 59 of 150

Who had used the concept of 'Jail cost of living' to estimate the poverty line in India?

Economy

ADadabhai NaorojiCorrect
BMahatma Gandhi
CC.D. Deshmukh
DVallabh Bhai Patel

Answer: A. Dadabhai Naoroji

Explanation

Dadabhai Naoroji used the 'jail cost of living' concept in his 1901 work 'Poverty and Un-British Rule in India'.

Source: UKPSC Combined Upper PCS Prelims 2025 GS (Paper-I) held 29-Jun-2025, Series-A (SDJ), via teachingninja.in; answers from UKPSC provisional answer key Series A (prepp.in)

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