There is no doubt that our grievances against the British Empire had a sound basis for. As the painstaking statistical work of the Cambridge historian Angus Maddison has shown, India's share of world income collapsed from 22.6% in 1700, almost equal to Europe's share of 23.3% at that time, to as low as 3.8% in 1952. Indeed, at the beginning of the 20th Century, "the brightest jewel in the British Crown" was the poorest country in the world in terms of per capita income.


On the effect of British colonialism on India's economy, as quoted in "Address by Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh at Oxford University", The Hindu (8 July 2005)

Manmohan Singh Quotes

There is no doubt that our grievances against the British Empire had a sound basis for. As the painstaking statistical work of the Cambridge...

There is no doubt that our grievances against the British Empire had a sound basis for. As the painstaking statistical work of the Cambridge...

There is no doubt that our grievances against the British Empire had a sound basis for. As the painstaking statistical work of the Cambridge...

There is no doubt that our grievances against the British Empire had a sound basis for. As the painstaking statistical work of the Cambridge...