India and the great divergence: An Anglo-Indian comparison of GDP per capita, 1600–1871

Estimates of Indian GDP are constructed from the output side for 1600–1871, and combined with population data. Indian per capita GDP declined steadily during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries before stabilising during the nineteenth century. As British growth increased from the mid-seventeent...

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Main Authors: Broadberry, S, Custodis, J, Gupta, B
Format: Journal article
Published: Elsevier 2014