>used to be one of the richest economies in history
>reduced to a poor streetshitting backwater shithole
How the FUCK did this happen?
>>17862821 (OP)The brits did a number on them
Who's the subject? India?
"India" was created in 1948
>>17863209how did the brits turn them into a bunch of disgusting subhumans or were they always that way?
>>17863217i meant the pre-colonial india
>>17862821 (OP)They weren't rich. They had a lot of people which in the pre industrial era makes them the richest in total by default. Then the rest of the world industrialized while India continued huffing fumes.
The british ruined india with their protectionism.
>>17864812>i meant the pre-colonial indiaIt was like 700 different countries. The closest it got to being unified before Britain was probably the Mughals (Mongols)
