INDIA-SOME ARCHIEVES

Nehru and Gandhi at AICC meeting, July 1946, any guesses what are they discussing?


Ghandhiji Addressing people



The dead - Punjab, 1947



TRAIN TO PAKISTAN; India 1947. Trains packed with refugees - Hindus and Sikhs headed for India, and Muslims headed for Pakistan - were convenient targets for gangs of killers on both sides of the border. Inadequately protected 'Refugee Specials' were typically stopped, and the occupants butchered, several times in the course of the journey.

Aug. 15, 1947: Mountbatten swears Nehru in as Prime Minister of India

INDIAN ECONOMY

Currency	1 Indian Rupee (INR) (₨) = 100 Paise
Fiscal year	April 1–March 31
Trade organisations	WTO, SAFTA
Statistics
GDP	$3.305 trillion (2008 est.)[1]
GDP growth	9% (2007)
GDP per capita	$2,600 (PPP)
GDP by sector	agriculture: 17.8%, industry: 29.4%, services: 52.8% (2007 est.)
Inflation (CPI)	6.4% (CPI) (2007 est)
Population below poverty line	27.5% (2008 est.)[2]
Labour force	516.4 million (2007 est.)
Labour force by occupation	agriculture: 60%, industry: 12%, services: 28% (2003)
Unemployment	7.2% (2007 est.)
Main industries	textiles, chemicals, food processing, steel, transportation equipment, cement, mining, petroleum, machinery, software, services
External
Exports	$163 billion[3] (Financial Year 2007-2008)
Export goods	petroleum products, textile goods, gems and jewelry, engineering goods, chemicals, leather manufactures
Main export partners	US 15%, the People's Republic of China 8.7%, UAE 8.7%, UK 4.4% (2007)
Imports	$230.5 billion f.o.b. (2007 est.)
Import goods	crude oil, machinery, gems, fertilizer, chemicals
Main import partners	the People's Republic of China 10.6%, US 7.8%, Germany 4.4%, Singapore 4.4%
Public finances
Public Debt	$149.2 billion (2007)
Revenues	$141.2 billion (2007 est.)
Expenses	$172.6 billion (2007 est.)

Population: 1,147,995,904