How much money did Britain take away from India?

On October 1st, 2019, the Atlantic Council’s South Asia Center hosted a roundtable conversation with Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, Minister of External Affairs of the Republic of India. “India had two centuries of humiliation by the West in its predatory form it came to India in the mid-18th century. An economic study tried to estimate how much British took out of India, it ended up at a number of $45 trillion in today’s value,” Jaishankar stated.