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Originally Posted by crucifissio
civilisation defined:
India before UK invasion: 25% worlds GDP
India after UK invasion: 2% worlds GDP
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Before and up to today India has a strict caste system. This means from conception someone is marked as inferior though to superior.
After the British left India and left Indians to sort out their own problems. They immediately started to kill each other.
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An estimate of India's pre-colonial economy puts the annual revenue of Emperor Akbar's treasury in 1600 at £17.5 million (in contrast to the entire treasury of Great Britain two hundred years later in 1800, which totaled £16 million). The gross domestic product of Mughal India in 1600 was estimated at about 24.3% the world economy, the second largest in the world.
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Which was all in the hands of the very few at the top.
Did Indian GDP become British GDP because Great Britain was the superior country?
If only a country like Serbia was able to be as successful as Great Britain.
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Historians have questioned why India did not undergo industrialisation in the nineteenth century in the way that Britain did. In the seventeenth century, India was a relatively urbanised and commercialised nation with a buoyant export trade, devoted largely to cotton textiles, but also including silk, spices, and rice. India was the world?s main producer of cotton textiles and had a substantial export trade to Britain, as well as many other European countries, via the East India Company. Yet as British cotton industry underwent a technological revolution in the late eighteenth century, the Indian industry stagnated, and industrialisation in India was delayed until the twentieth century.
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Liberal thinking blinds people to the truth. Like the temperature in India, imagine working in a mill with Indian temperatures, bad enough in the UK. India could never have grown at the pace GB grew.