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The economic history of the India since 1947 can be divided into two epochs: 1.1947-91 which saw heavy government involvement in the economy, and a slow growth rate in GDP 2.1991–present which saw deregulation and a rapid growth in GDP, and reduction in poverty.
India wins cricket world cup after 28 years under the captaincy of MS Dhoni. 13 May : After 34 years of Left Front Government, Trinamool Congress and Congress alliance come to power in West Bengal. 2012: 25 July : Pranab Mukherjee, the former Finance Minister is elected as the 13th president of India. 2013: 12 February
This period also covers the "Late Classical Age" of Hinduism, which began after the collapse of the Empire of Harsha in the 7th century, [173] and ended in the 13th century with the rise of the Delhi Sultanate in Northern India; [174] the beginning of Imperial Kannauj, leading to the Tripartite struggle; and the end of the Later Cholas with the ...
It found that between 1950 and 2015, India’s Hindu population declined by 7.82%, while the Muslim population increased by 43.15% at the same time. ... which ruled over India for nearly 50 years ...
Urbanization in India began to accelerate after independence, due to the country's adoption of a mixed economy, which gave rise to the development of the private sector. The population residing in urban areas in India, according to the 1901 census, was 11.4%, [ 1 ] increasing to 28.53% by the 2001 census, and is now currently 34% in 2017 ...
according to the United Nations, India now has more people than China, an epochal shift in global demographics that happened sometime in late April. How India’s population exploded to overtake ...
Map showing the population density in India, per 2011 Census. [99] India occupies 2.41% of the world's land area but supports over 18% of the world's population. At the 2001 census 72.2% of the population [100] lived in about 638,000 villages [101] and the remaining 27.8% [100] lived in more than 5,100 towns and over 380 urban agglomerations. [102]
India was the world's second-largest textile exporter after China in the 2013 calendar year. [ 316 ] Averaging an economic growth rate of 7.5% for several years prior to 2007, [ 307 ] India has more than doubled its hourly wage rates during the first decade of the 21st century. [ 317 ]