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India’s Colonial Story
The Great Reversal
34% → 1.8%
India's share of world GDP at the start of the 18th century, versus the close of colonial rule.
The most documented economic collapse in modern history.
India’s Colonial Story
Famine as Policy
30M+
Estimated deaths in colonial-era famines between the mid-19th and mid-20th century.
Grain kept moving even as India starved.
India’s Colonial Story
Indentured Labour
3.5M
Indian workers indentured overseas between 1834 and 1917 — from the Caribbean to Fiji.
Approximate figure. Slavery ended. This began.
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