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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Elsevier
2014
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