India, China were the biggest economies pre-20th century
Posted by: r1b2 on: August 17, 2010
Would you believe that for most of the last 2000 years, India and China were world’s biggest economies in terms of the GDP ?
Data compiled by Angus Maddison, an economist who died earlier this year, suggest that China and India were the biggest economies in the world before 1900 AD. Here is the chart of world GDP for last 2000 years….
Chart courtesy of The Economist magazine.
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Gita verses
- Chapter 4 Verses 2424. Brahman is the oblation; Brahman is the melted butter (ghee); by Brahman is the oblation poured into the fire of Brahman; Brahman verily shall be reached by him who always sees Brahman in action.
- Chapter 4 Verses 2323. To one who is devoid of attachment, who is liberated, whose mind is established in knowledge, who works for the sake of sacrifice (for the sake of God), the whole action is dissolved.
- Chapter 4 Verses 2222. Content with what comes to him without effort, free from the pairs of opposites and envy, even-minded in success and failure, though acting, he is not bound.
- Chapter 4 Verses 2121. Without hope and with the mind and the self controlled, having abandoned all greed, doing mere bodily action, he incurs no sin.
