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The India of my childhood (the 1950s) was a poor India. Money was scarce, food was scarce, and good cloths were a luxury. Thus it was easy for me to believe the false propaganda that India has always been a poor nation that needed a bit of help from Europe for its upliftment.

Time has come for truth to be told, for our national pride depends both upon what we are and also upon what we were. Ancient India was known to be a house full of gold, and that is the reason why all kind of people came from the north-western borders for the loot. And loot they got because of the divisions within the country.

It is business that made India rich. Business in every conceivable thing. So much so that coins were common in India around 1000 BC. What is more, instead of being made of base metals (that comes out of the present-day mints), almost all coins were of silver. Hundreds of thousands of them have survived! There were also plenty of gold coins, but it has not survived in that great numbers due to loot, melting, and the smaller number in any country of currency of the highest value.

Consider this only as a seed-thought to my readers to look into the great past that India had, and then declare it to boost the morale while we ride crest of financial bliss.

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