The India-England prosperity gap widened dramatically between 1835 and 1947

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Marx was wondering, even as the conflict in India waxed and waned, whether India might not, in the long run, go the way of the United States. The idea of the transplantation of European society’ grew out 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 decolonization. — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory, 439

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