Mythology? Mythological map? Are you intellectually sound? If Chakravartin and King Bharata did exist, so did Zeus and his thunderbolt, Medusa and her head of snakes. And our Jade Emperor, he ruled all mortals. On that basis, the world belongs to China. How does that sound? If you want an intellectual discussion, make your argument based on real history, don't give me this mythology crap.
Historical facts are facts: Maurya was 2000 years ago and it lasted only 130 years, that's not even 5% of your historical period. The rest of your history, you were a myriad of different kingdoms.
If you are one sovereign political entity, you can only have one empire, one emperor who ruled the land. What is the indian empire that ruled all india from 185 BC right to 1850 before the British came?? None!!!!
Since you don't have a single empire, on what basis can you argue the princely states are "rightfully yours"?????? Tibet belongs to Chinese empire during the dynasty of Qing, a single political entity. Your princely states never belong to any single sovereign empire. Don't make a mockery of this discussion with such absurd comparison.
There is no need to go into detail about Partition. The fact that muslims empire ruled for centuries, along side Hindu kingdoms is another proof that you were never one empire or one country.
Ancient Indian economy.
1) You come across as someone who is well read in the subject of economics, as evidenced by your various post, shouldn't you also know economics can hardly be considered as science without any empirical data? So why are you quoting Angus Maddison?????
His works on ancient world economy is guesstimate at best. At worst, academic trash. None of research on ancient world economy is based on empirical data. Sure, one would argue you can't pull data from 1000 AD. There you go. How could one meaningful compute ancient GDP when one cannot defined a proper border, the empire represented, and economics indicators like capital investment, labour, consumption?
Angus Maddison: Contours of the World Economy 1-2030 AD. Essays in Macro-Economic History. Oxford 2007. - H-Soz-u-Kult / Rezensionen / Bücher
There is a reason why there exists no ancient economics department from any top university. Neither was there any attempt to compute ancient GDP by any of these elite institutions.
2) You quoted many sources but are you saying anything of substance? None of the sources you posted made credible claim that India would industrialize if British didn't colonize. They merely talked about how an economy works in British colony. British India is no different from Malaysia and Singapore in the way British operated. Yet India fell behind these two countries in development post independent.
Find me better excuses. No mythology, no fake map, no irrelevant examples, no unproven/flawed research work.
