India’s prosperity gap with England widened across colonial rule

Evidence

The idea of ‘the transplantation of European society’ grew our of that analogy, which now appears to us altogether fantastic, but it is worth recalling that the gap in material prosperity between India and England was narrower in 1835 than it was to become by 1947, on the eve of decolonizarion. — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory, 984

Categorization

• CANDY: A striking, tweetable fact: colonial rule itself widened the very gap it claimed to close.
• XREF: connects to: The India-England prosperity gap widened dramatically between 1835 and 1947 — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory: Nations, Classes, Literatures, 439

Broader Connections

• The India-England prosperity gap widened dramatically between 1835 and 1947 #corroborates (0.98) — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory, 439