{"id":351475,"date":"2025-12-08T14:27:22","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T08:57:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/?p=351475"},"modified":"2025-12-08T14:27:22","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T08:57:22","slug":"hindu-rate-of-growth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/hindu-rate-of-growth\/","title":{"rendered":"Hindu Rate of Growth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>News- <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Recently, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said at the Hindustan Times Leadership Summit that the phrase \u201cHindu rate of growth\u201d reflected a colonial mindset..<\/span><\/p>\n<h2>About Hindu Rate of Growth<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is a term that describes <\/span><b>India\u2019s low economic growth rates<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> from the 1950s to the 1980s, which averaged around 3.5%.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Term Coined By<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: It was coined by economist <\/span><b>Raj Krishna in 1978.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Key Features<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> It <\/span><b>indicates low per-capita GDP growth<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, which <\/span><b>also depends on population growth.<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-351476 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Hindu-growth-rate.png?resize=679%2C74&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Hindu growth rate\" width=\"679\" height=\"74\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Hindu-growth-rate.png?w=679&amp;ssl=1 679w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Hindu-growth-rate.png?resize=300%2C33&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 679px) 100vw, 679px\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> It <\/span><b>remained steady<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> despite changes in governments, wars, famines and crises.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>India Outgrew the Hindu Rate of Growth<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> GDP growth data shows that India started exceeding the Hindu rate of 3.5% even before the 1991 crisis and reforms.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> While average GDP growth was about 3.4% between 1956 and 1975, it increased to 5.8% during the period from 1981 to 1991.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Criticism<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Colonial Mindset Interpretation: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Prime Minister Narendra Modi said the phrase reflected a colonial mindset that linked India\u2019s slow growth to the faith and identity of its people and gave the entire civilisation a tag of unproductivity and poverty.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><b>Disparaging Cultural Stereotype:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> It was also used disparagingly, with connotations related to supposed attitudes of fatalism and contentedness.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News- Recently, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said at the Hindustan Times Leadership Summit that the phrase \u201cHindu rate of growth\u201d reflected a colonial mindset.. About Hindu Rate of Growth It is a term that describes India\u2019s low economic growth rates from the 1950s to the 1980s, which averaged around 3.5%. 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