Freedom (6/6)
This is also part of this series: Story of India, The (6)
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| Subjects: Anthropology, History, India, Science, Social Studies, World Religions | ||||
The series ends by acknowledging the extraordinary achievements of Indian democracy over 60 years, and flags India's predicted rise to be the largest country and the second largest (or even the largest) economy in the world in the next three decades. The last section of this epic journey "over 10,000 years and 10,000 miles", as Wood puts it, looks briefly at the first 45 years of socialist-influenced planning and the last 15 of unfettered growth as India rises rapidly to become a world power once again. The leading futurologist from Goldman Sachs shows graphs of 2,000 years of world GDP and looks at long-term economic trends to show us how India is once again at the forefront of the world economy-as it was for most of history. |
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