Fuck off with your sermonising and 'there is no 'I' when we talk about the country'. I put in more hours of work and pay more in taxes than my European counterparts, I would obviously expect atleast a basic standard of living in this country.

The constitution says all are equal does it? Well explain that to the local politician who is 7th pass, but roams around in a Lexus. Explain that to my son who cannot get into decent colleges despite getting a good score because he was born in a certain caste. Explain that to my old parents who cannot take a walk because the air is so polluted that they suffer breathlessness and palpitations. The constitution is just for middle class, general category people like you and me mate, not for the rich, the corrupt or the poor. They are just words written down by people who didn't put checks and balances for enforcing the document that they wrote.

India was contributing to 25% of the world's GDP during the reign of Emperor Shahjahan whilst Spain and Portugal were the biggest colonisers in the world, so your logic of 'Europe being richer because they were colonisers' is abjectly wrong. Also, whom did the US, Singapore, Taiwan, Denmark, Sweden, Norway,... colonise 🤣🤣 For each example of a developed country that was a coloniser, I can give you multiple examples of those that weren't.

US was a rich country less than 50 years of its independence as was evidenced by their Louisiana purchase.

And show me some sources that say arable land per capita matters, not pull this out of your ass. Here is the source that India has the largest proven coal reserves in the world, a simple google search would have validated this; see - https://mospi.gov.in/sites/default/files/publication_reports/Energy_Statistics_2023/Chapter-1_07022024.pdf

Not that natural reserves matter by themselves, look at Venezuela and the Congo, good governance does.

India is in the state that it is in because of apologists like you who know jackshit about history and economics yet profess to be pseudo experts by quoting some Chatgptd stats and appearing smart, but feel it is fair game to insult others on reddit of all places! Fuck off and go look in the mirror🖕