> India you should compare to India's trajectory had British rule not occurred.

How? Fantasize?

You do seem to make a lot of unsupported statements that seem more akin to belief than observable facts.

Given generally we measure poverty by how many things Western countries have invented and built, and not look to India as the leading edge of development, it's not hard to deduce India's trajectory had it never met the West. Overwhelming caste system, low tech. Hitting a local maximum and never getting out of it. A bit like what the UK might've been had the Romans never colonised it.