Originally Posted by
Raikaswinþs
you can´t compare pears and apples.
India is a regional powerhouse with 1.3 billion people crammed in a space the size of Argentina but in the middle of the Eurasian continent where most of trade happens. It has an important infrastructure and it is a developing supernation made of a multitude of nationalities many of which hate each other to the guts (The reason why there is a Pakistan and a Bangladesh to begin with)
India is not only exporting corner shop vendors and uber drivers but also computer engineers and scientists if every kind. In the US they have overcome European Americans in average per capita income.
They have fabulous cities and a strong middle class made of millions. Some of their ethnicities own entire parts of first world cities such as Edinburgh )one family pretty much owns half of all the Royal Mile businesses)
Their cultural and historic significance is vast.
You should be comparing India to the European Union or United States or China. The comparison with a smalll European Nation state does not make sense. You can compare Punjab with Spain, or Gujarat with Spain etc.
Now this said....India is still a developing superpower with a huge, and I mean HUGE portion of its population living in conditions nobody in Spain, not even the 0.00001% poorest can even begin to imagine. Spain´s economy on the other hand, despite having dropped a few spots since crisis...it´s not exactly one you should ignore. Spain´s GDP is almost neck on neck with India (1.8 trillion vs 1.4 trillion) with less than 1/20 of it´s population. Per capita income in spain is 500% higher than in India and the modernity and reach of its infrastructure also can´t be compared. While some parts of India are 1st'world like, the vast majority of the country isn´t. As a small, rich , powerful and influential European Nation'State, Spain is in a much better position than India in many aspects but, as I said, the two should not be compared.
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