questions regarding colonies and costs

[Usurperr]

I am playing vanilla Vic 1.04 I have questions regarding the huge colonial empire of Britain specifically India. Basically I am wondering if I should just give away lots of the states that arent producing high demand items to save money on education, crime and social spending. I presume I am not the first to wonder this does any have a answer to how this will affect my tax income loss vs saved expenditures? I could easily get rid of a lot and still keep enough for manpower. It all boils down to wheter or not these huge colonial populations are a drain or positive force for the British economically.

thanks

 

[orimazd]

If you keep expanding RGOs, even wheat provinces in India will be raking in a lot of money.