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>Indian share of world economy went from 23-24% before colonialism to less than 4% under colonialism. India's share of World Trade went from 27% to 2% under colonialism.

Please cite this very interesting piece of information.

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All the charts that show this are dealing in percentage of world GDP. This is really a meaningless statistic, and by itself doesn't show anything one way or the other about colonialism. Until the beginning of the industrial revolution, China and India were always 1 & 2 in GDP, because they were 1 & 2 in population. The biggest innovation of the Industrial Revolution was decoupling production from population.

Est. world GDP, 1750: $128 billion - India @ ~22% = $28 billion

Est. world GDP, 1950: $4 trillion - India @ ~ 4% = $163 billion

[1] https://infogr.am/Share-of-world-GDP-throughout-history

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gross_world_product

You are right; the largest gains in global economic output where made after the industrial revolution. http://www.economist.com/blogs/dailychart/2011/06/quantifyin... But you can't ignore British policies that decimated India's manufacturing capability before that. Like what's been written below..

Sourced from here http://www.economist.com/node/16834943

You would enjoy this as well -https://www.change.org/p/british-government-england-uk-india...

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