>>211859609The British came to one of the richest countries in the world, accounting for 27 percent of global GDP in 1700, 23 percent in 1800. And over 200 years of exploitation, depredation, loot, and destruction reduced it to a poster child for third world poverty, just over three percent of global GDP, ninety percent of the population living below the poverty line when the British left in 1947.
a literacy rate below 17 percent, and a life expectancy of 27. The growth rate of British India from 1900 to 1947: 0.001. That's what they were doing while draining the country of taxes and resources.