Arbitrary? Kind of stupid, are you? I choose the significant years, 2 events. Independence of your country and collapse of Indian economy. I would not argue whether it was Indian incompetence to follow a socialist policy. But India still outperformed BD. You pretend as if BD started out at 0 in 71. The base was still there, there was a set back, much like what was with 92 crisis in India. BD had open economy, unlike India. Even if you start counting since independence, BD has 75% gdp per capita while its age is also almost 75% that of India. 20 years India was under socialist rule which was more than enough for BD to cover the last ground. Even after that the reforms in India are going at slow pace. Despite all this, BD can't catch up. For a much smaller country, with much smaller administrative area, better connectivity to centre for all the country, no regional diversity, this is certainly an indicator of poor performance.
And the economically incompetent Indians, who have maintained a lead over the much small BD per capita, are still one of the biggest and fastest growing economies. At the very least, have a clout over the "much superior" Bangladesh!
