We are not 1.3 billion, neither we have the size of market which bharatis offer, we cant be bharat, we should follow countries of our size like Japan, France, Turkey etc.
Nothing to do with 1.3 billion. Go learn history & understand economics & your policies. I have explained in different threads. Giving you some more facts.
In 1965 US & UK ganged up with the west & Middle East to punish India for no mistake of ours. In-spite of a war started by Pakistan, the west along with Muslim countries victimized & strangled India for being a Russian ally. Do you know Pakistan clocked 10.4 % GDP growth in 1965, when India's GDP growth was negative (-) 2.6% in the same year. Russia coming to India's aid in 1971 made the whole west & Muslim countries fume, trying everything to cripple India & Soviet Union for breaking Pakistan.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2005/jun/29/india.usa
American President Nixon & Security Advisor Kissinger said Indians are Bastards & Indira Gandhi a Bitch in 1971.
Even nature was against us adding to our misery, there were droughts in 1971-72 & the first oil price shock which brought high inflation along with economic stagnation.
The entire world ganged up to see a collapse of Indian & Soviet Union's economies. In 1991 Soviet union collapsed & India almost at a collapse. In 1991 our growth rate was 1.06 % when Pakistan clocked 5.42 %. In 1992 Pak GDP grew at 7.57 %. Between 1980- 1992 Pakistan economy grew at an average rate of 6.5 % compared to an average of 4.85 % of India. In the 90's PKR was stronger than INR. Up until even 1996 1 PKR was equal to 1.028 INR.
Both our Forex Reserves were almost same till 1975. Between 1976-1990 India's Forex Reserves was oscillating a little higher between 1.0-1.5 Billion Dollars. The wars with Pakistan, China followed with internal chaos like Maoist, Naga, Khalistan movement, LTTE apart from some other North East tensions & Kashmir almost sent our economy into the ICU. Pakistan & China were funding & arming proxies to bring down India. The worst was even Bangladesh backstabbing us by supporting & infiltrating ULFA at the same time. With no international support or money, India was literally fractured & bleeding from all sides & was almost brought to its death. The worst was the assassination of Indira Gandhi by Khalistanis followed immediately of her son Rajiv Gandhi by LTTE in 1991.
By mid of 1991 Balance of payment Economic crisis hit India, our Forex reserves dipped to 700 Million compared to 600 Million of Pakistan at the same time. With 6 times bigger population, the reserves was barely enough for roughly 3 weeks of essential imports, India was only weeks away from defaulting on its external balance of payment obligations. The west laughed at India & said India can never unite together with so many different languages, culture, religion, castes. It will break up into pieces. British proud of their rule always mocked, India was never a country & never will be. They can only be united under a rule like ours.
1991 Govt of India's immediate response was to secure an emergency loan of $2.2 billion from the IMF by pledging 67 tons of India's gold reserves as collateral security. The RBI had to airlift 47 tons of gold to the Bank of England and 20 tons of gold to the Union Bank of Switzerland to raise $600 million. National sentiments were outraged and there was public outcry when it was learned that the government had pledged the country's entire gold reserves against the loan. The Chandra Shekhar government collapsed a few months after having authorized the airlift. The move helped tide the collapse for the moment.
What followed next was a historic change in the Indian policies & economy. Narsimha Rao came into power who chose a non political Manmohan Singh as his Finance Minister. They both took some bold steps which was never tested in 45 years of the independence. The opposition & many diplomats were highly critical of trying some policies never seen in Indian history. But to everybody's astonishment the economic graph started to take a year on year upward movement for the next decade & then a boom.
18 years after this incident, India bought 200 Metric tons on gold from IMF, which was nearly three times the amount which India pawned to IMF in 1991.
The only difference was with all your attacks & proxies, Pakistan's inability to bring down or defeat India was building up your hatred even more. Your arrogance kept growing with the west & Muslim countries support. Even BD, Iran & Sri Lanka was on your side. You were having a honey moon period with the Afghan war, US funding with the Soviet withdrawal & collapse. You upped the ante seeing all our chaos with in India by diverting all these highly experienced Jihadis into Kashmir in the 90's. This was the turning point. You intensified your policies by promoting Jihadis & proxy war in Kashmir & other parts, we changed our economic policies & focused more on it. Slowly when money started pouring in, one by one our internal issues started to subside & fade away. Another blessing in disguise was 1999 Musharaf's Kargil Blunder, followed by Osama Bin Laden & 2001 Twin tower blasts.
From 2001 our economy blasted off like a rocket for the next 7 years. Mid 1991 Forex Reserves which stood at 700 Million Dollar
(Not even 1 Billion $) has climbed to a mammoth 382 Billion $ by mid 2017
(compared to 16 Billion from 600 Million of Pakistan).
If not for Pakistan & our corruption, lack of vision of politicians, political differences, our economy would be at-least 5 times the size of what it's today.
https://www.quora.com/Which-country-has-fared-better-after-partition-India-or-Pakistan
Go through the above link to see some of the statistics to get an idea. It's no where the 1.3 Billion population. It's our money in the pocket which has given us the power. The snakes which you fed to bleed India is now not able to enter India at ease & they are not getting proper food & compensation. India just kept its guard down & focused on building such a strong foundation which Pakistan can never topple today. So everything is reversed slowly from 2001 against you & it is getting worse year after year.
Even today, you are continuing the same policies which has shown you failures. Extend a hand to India. Make peace. It's already late. Things might change.