About the Book: Era Of India: From Impoverished Colony To The Worlds
Third-Largest Economy
In his narrative-defining book, Era of India, Minhaz Merchant examines
interlinked civilizational arcs across centuries and millennia. Through much of
recorded history, living standards were broadly similar in the Old World:
Europe, Asia and Africa.
The discovery of the New World in the Americas and Australasia brought about
great change: catastrophic for some, a boon for others. Differences in per
capita income between Europeans and Asians were minimal in 1600. By 1900, the
gap had risen multiple times. Europe emerged from plague and penury to great
wealth.
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