Did You Know...

[ToraToraTora]

That despite having a population 20 times the size of the UK, India has a smaller GDP?

[Buenchico]

Yup. I also know that the difference is fairly marginal and that India's GDP was actually greater than the UK's prior to Covid.

Further, I know that a far more reliable of economic success or failure is the level of a country's debt when expressed as a percentage of GDP. The UK has a higher percentage than India does:
https://countryeconomy.com/countries/compare/india/uk?sc=XE02

[ToraToraTora]

oops look like I have awoken the 5C!

[Paigntonian]

And?

[Peter Pedant]

On the inception of FREEDOM 1947 - it was widely believed this would unleash the Indian Century
Large industry, which the Japanese had strategically decided NOT to bomb.

all you can say is: the long expected Indian century of Indian dominance of the world..... did not occur

[THECORBYLOON]

This is news?

[Atheist]

Gosh; I didn't know that Buenchico was a fifth columnist!

[davebro]

shush!

[Mozz71]

He argued against Tora. He must be 5C.

[Hymie]

India made up 1/3 of the world’s economy from 1AD to 1,000AD, and 25% as late as the 1500s (source Wikipedia).