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India's GDP (PPP) per capita was stagnant during the Mughal Empire and began to decline prior to the onset of British rule. [15] India's share of global industrial output declined from 25% in 1750 to 2% in 1900. [14] From 1600 to 1871 the ratio of GDP per capita in India to that in Britain fell from more than 60% to less than 15%. [16]
India experienced deindustrialisation and cessation of various craft industries under British rule, [12] which along with fast economic and population growth in the Western world, resulted in India's share of the world economy declining from 24.4% in 1700 to 4.2% in 1950, [13] and its share of global industrial output declining from 25% in 1750 ...
By the 19th century, the British empire had replaced the Indian economy as the world's largest textile manufacturer. From 1858, the Indian economy was controlled directly under British imperial rule, also known as the British Raj. India continued to be occupied by the British until India gained independence in 1947.
Maddison's estimates of global GDP, [6] China and India being the most powerful until the 18th century. Bengal Subah was valued 50% of Mughal India's GDP.. 1500–1600 Indian subcontinent, mostly under the Mughal Empire (after the conquest of the Delhi Sultanate and Bengal Sultanate) became economically 10 times more powerful than the contemporary Kingdom of France, [7] contained an estimated ...
Under British rule, India's share of the world economy declined from 24.4% in 1700 down to 4.2% in 1950. India's GDP (PPP) per capita was stagnant during the Mughal Empire and began to decline prior to the onset of British rule. [144] India's share of global industrial output declined from 25% in 1750 down to 2% in 1900. [126]
In general, the term "British India" had been used (and is still used) to refer also to the regions under the rule of the British East India Company in India from 1600 to 1858. [140] The term has also been used to refer to the "British in India". [141]
The British had direct or indirect control over all parts of present-day India before the middle of the 19th century. In 1857, a local rebellion by a group of sepoys escalated into the Indian Rebellion of 1857 , which took six months to suppress with heavy loss of life on both sides; with British casualties numbering in the thousands and Indian ...
A map of British India in 1909. The Great Depression in India was a period of economic depression in the Indian subcontinent, then under British colonial rule.Beginning in 1929 in the United States, the Great Depression soon began to spread to countries around the globe.