jun 15th, 2011 CE
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brits destroyed the entire clusters of small enterprises, artisans, metalworkers, weavers, leatherworkers and other skilled workers in the brahmaputra and kaveri deltas, which together accounted for some 15% of world GDP in 1700 CE. they turned these skilled workers into itinerant, landless laborerers, which is the cause of endemic poverty even today -- prosperous tradespeople were overnight turned into paupers.
now NREGA is repeating this, says nirmala sitharaman.
figures.