India was the largest economy and richest civilization between 1AD to 1700 AD with a GDP of 25 to 30% until the time of British invasion in the 18th century, according to British economist Angus Maddison who did a 20 yrs research on world economy for 2000 yrs, funded by OECD countries. His book world economy: a millennial perspective and historical statistics, says it all.
Indian civilization (then kingdoms) was also the industrial workshop of the world until 18th century.
India's massive poverty is the result of British loot and plundering. Indeed most of areas of the world ruled by British empire are still struggling to root out poverty and corruption. The present generation of UK is not responsible for this human tragedy of epic proportions but British media and historians should teach the true history in UK schools instead of painting a rosy picture about the Raj.
All this talk about poor people - Remember, India is a democratic country not a communist country. But still Indian government provides free education in government schools and free food as well. It is an individual's responsibility to come up in life.
IF YOU ARE SOO WORIED ABOUT INDIANS WHY DONT YOU RETURN OUR MONEY BACK???
Starting with the
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koh-i-N...dia_to_England that you stole from us
WHICH IS UR QUEEN PROUDLY WEARING.. ur UK will be bankrupted if u have to give back the wealth u stole from us adjusted to inflation.
so please dont lie anymore
It is funny to see people from the west who breath democracy, suddenly turn in to communists and start worrying about poor people and spending, that too in another country. May be people in the west should worry more about their huge debt, spending cuts and dwindling middle class and ever increasing poor people on food stamps
Moreover, India has around 300 billion dollars as forex reserves. India as a re-emerging economy is set to become the largest economy in the world by 2050 with a GDP of 85 trillion dollars in terms of PPP, according to a report by CITI private bank and Knight frank. India is already the third largest economy in the world with GDP of 4.7 trillion dollars in terms of PPP. Take it easy folks. Indian civilization is back
Indian space Program's huge constellation of satellites ranging from remote sensing, telecom, weather etc have been phenomenally instrumental in lifting 400+ million people out of abject poverty in the last 20 years by being instrumental in our huge telecommunication industry employing tens millions of people and hundreds of thousands of businesses, in our agricultural and fisheries industry again being a sustenance of many many millions of people and thousands of agro industries and companies.
The space program is close to being half a century old as of 2013. ISRO is also a profit making space organisation, perhaps the ONLY profit making space program on the planet, yielding returns for every single rupee spent in it with commercial launches and services to a huge number of industries and laboratories.
The materials and technologies developed have immensely helped in our medical instrument industry with organ valves, prosthetics etc helping save millions of people from death.
The space program's constellation of weather satellites have only last month helped PERFECTLY predict Typhoon Phailin thus enabling evacuate more than a MILLION people in just a few days, only 6 people died, that too due to their own mistake for venturing into the shore despite warning. An earlier such cyclone in 1999 claimed more than 50,000 lives in a few days.
So please, our space program is one of our BIGGEST strengths and our BIGGEST asset in solving poverty. I hope you realize that !!!
Again go and check your own space programme,and if you can contribute it ,then do it.OH YEAH YOU DON'T HAVE ONE
Take a look at 'Jaipur Foot', a FREE prosthetic limb made of space-composites developed by India's Space Program to help hundreds of thousands of poor handicapped Indians.
What has YOUR space organization done for the poor handicapped in your country?NOTHING
As for the comments regarding Indian people living in the UK, these are uncalled for and have an unpleasant whiff about them. There is a lot of bitterness in the UK at the moment because our previous government allowed immigration on a massive scale and this has upset the social balance here. The anger should be directed at the British government for doing this, rather than at the people that have come to the UK to settle.
How about the $10 Billion EU aid India gave which you happily took your British share of. Might I also take this opportunity to remind you that India is the fourth largest investor in UK providing thousands of jobs, also Indian companies are turning your financial blackholes like Jaguar-Landrover etc into profit making ventures with better corporate management.
India has made massive gains in all sectors after independence but the massive population increase makes it increasingly harder to maintain standards of living. Indeed providing food, water, shelter etc. to 1.2 billion people in India is the biggest problem that the world needs to solve. I am sure current UK government would have struggled to do so if UK had the same population size. Even the Chinese system's heavy handed approach would not work in India since it would lead to disintegration of the nation. What India has managed to do is nothing short of a miracle.
The brits can't face the facts that India is no more the milking cow of the Union Jack and that we are doing rather well without their Queen ruling us
Why do we miss the point that India is third largest international investor in U.K ...Indian owned companies in India include corus steel, jaguar, land rover to name a few...i guess the jobs provided by them must be in tens of thousands
Britain has a prime minister who takes regular trips to newdelhi begging for new contracts more business to save their collapsing economy...
You would think after witnessing people coming from other countries for the last 60 years and making a huge success of their economic lives, the white English would have learned by example. But, no. You prefer to sit at home drinking, watching talent shows and moaning about "immigrants on benefits"
Your divide and rule tricks will not work any more