In the year 1700, India was worth a staggering 21 trillion dollars by today’s standards. Its economy was so large and so powerful that is was bigger than all of Western Europe’s combined. 250 years later, India was one of the poorest countries in the world. So what went wrong? #colonisation Subscribe: http://trt.world/subscribe Livestream: http://trt.world/ytlive Facebook: http://trt.world/facebook Twitter: http://trt.world/twitter Instagram: http://trt.world/instagram Visit our website: http://trt.world

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