What is meant by ‘Home Charges’?

1.	What is meant by ‘Home Charges’?
Answer» Payment burden: Over and above the huge salaries that the British used to draw from income earned from India, they were also paid a large sum as ‘home charges’ to the British personnel in India. The home charges included expenses of the British administration, maintenance of the British Army, war expenses, pensions to retired British officers and other expenses made by Britain for maintaining her colonies. These home charges were made of three components, They are: Interest payments for debts incurred in maintaining Indian colony, Interest on the railways and Civil and military charges.

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Payment burden:

Over and above the huge salaries that the British used to draw from income earned from India, they were also paid a large sum as ‘home charges’ to the British personnel in India.
The home charges included expenses of the British administration, maintenance of the British Army, war expenses, pensions to retired British officers and other expenses made by Britain for maintaining her colonies.
These home charges were made of three components, They are:
1. Interest payments for debts incurred in maintaining Indian colony,
2. Interest on the railways and
3. Civil and military charges.

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