Comment by anovikov

200 times - i am sure you used non-inflation adjusted figures. Current Indian average is some like 3-4x the subsistence figures and that's about the growth achieved since independence (when the vast majority of population were at the subsistence level and sometimes below). In fact, average economic growth in India since independence has been quite slow, shamefully slow for a country as poor. India had only slightly more per capita growth since 1950 than the USA - terrible performance given it is still somewhere near USA Civil War levels.