Birbal
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Someone pointed this out to me recently. India missed its window of opportunity 60 years ago. The 1950's should have been India's golden age of wealth and prosperity like it was for the US. UK destroyed, France destroyed, Germany destroyed, Japan destroyed, China destroyed, Korea destroyed, Singapore destroyed, Hong Kong destroyed, North Africa destroyed. If you can't dominate in that 1950's environment with all the infrastructure the British left India, ZERO chance now.
Infrastructure? Hah! There was no manufacturing infrastructure in India, as the British had used India as an export market and destroyed the local industry. And then there was the partition with its millions of refugees traveling in each direction and hundreds of thousands dead.