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There are other views on the economics of India under British rule: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_India_under_the_British_Raj#Economic_impact_of_Brit
by rfinney 8y ago
There are other views on the economics of India under British rule:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_India_under_the_British_Raj#Economic_impact_of_British_imperialism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_India_under_the_Bri...
example: * British increased the area of irrigated land by a factor of eight, contrasting with 5% under the Mughals.
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- Jagat 8y agoLet's not conflate correlation with causation. It's industrial revolution that caused the increase in irrigated land. It's possible that in the absence of British rule, Indian kingdoms would have found a way to trade its resources for agricultural equipments and engineers. Unlike China and Japan, Indian kingdoms weren't isolationist, and were well connected to Europe and Persia.