History Quote by Shashi Tharoor

“the British economic historian Angus Maddison has demonstrated, India’s share of the world economy was 23 per cent, as large as all of Europe…

— Shashi Tharoor

“India, under Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb, accounts for 27 per cent of the world economy.”

— Shashi Tharoor

It took Britain half the resources of the planet to achieve its prosperity; how many planets will a country like India require?

— Mahatma Gandhi

The Indian economy grew at 5.5 percent, but if you look at the last 30 years - for example, 1960 to 1985 - the…

— Manmohan Singh

“When the British left, India was a multireligious, multiregional, multiethnic country, exploited, backward, and poor from colonialism.”

— Prem Kishore

“The British succeeded. India deindustrialized, it ruralized. As the industrial revolution spread in England, India was turning into a poor, ruralized and agrarian country.…

— Noam Chomsky

The world over, it was believed that, down the line, India will emerge as a major economy along with U.S. and China.

— Rajnath Singh

Much of the conventional analysis of India's stature in the world relies on the all-too-familiar economic assumptions. But we are famously a land of…

— Shashi Tharoor

We got government off the backs of the people of India, particularly off the backs of India's entrepreneurs. We introduced more competition, both internal…

— Manmohan Singh

British-built railways in India helped the British to make money and maintain order; but, as a by-product, they served to unite the country, making…

— Michael Portillo

God forbid that India should ever take to industrialism after the manner of the west... keeping the world in chains. If [our nation] took…

— Mahatma Gandhi

British-built railways in India helped the British to make money and maintain order and, as a by-product, served to unite the country, ripe for…

— Michael Portillo