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India and the great divergence: An Anglo-Indian comparison of GDP per capita, 1600–1871

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Estimates of Indian GDP are constructed from the output side for 1600–1871, and combined with population data. Indian per capita GDP declined steadily during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries before stabilising during the nineteenth century. As British growth increased from the mid-seventeenth century, India fell increasingly behind. Whereas in 1600, Indian per capita GDP was over 60% of the British level, by 1871 it had fallen to less than 15%. These estimates place the origins of the...

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10.1016/j.eeh.2014.04.003

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University of Oxford
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SSD
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Economics
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Elsevier Publisher's website
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Explorations in Economic History Journal website
Volume:
55
Pages:
58-75
Publication date:
2014-05-05
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0014-4983
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pubs:571419
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uuid:a9b02ec3-4214-423a-9a72-9599e72c7480
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571419
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2015-10-27

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