In 1600 when the East India Company was founded, Britain was generating 1.8% of the worlds GDP, while India was producing 22.5%. By the peak of the Raj, those figures had reversed: India was
reduced from the world's
leading manufacturing nation to a symbol of famine and deprivation. 
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