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100 _aPanagariya, Arvind
245 _aIndian unlimited: reclaiming the lost glory
260 _aGurugram:
_bHarper Collins
_c2020.
300 _a371 p.
520 _aIndia used to contribute approximately a quarter of the world's GDP until 1700 CE. As recently as 1820, this share was a hefty 16 per cent. But the Industrial Revolution shifted the centre of gravity of the global economy towards the West. The pernicious, indeed exploitative, policies of the British added to this shift by greatly impoverishing India. India's own policies during the first four decades following Independence denied it a rapid return to prosperity. But now that it has left those policies behind, opened up its economy and created a large GDP base, India can aspire to return to the prominent position it enjoyed in the global economy for so long
650 _aIndia Unlimited
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