Downfall of Bengal's economy, explained

West Bengal was an economic powerhouse post-1947.In 1951, its literacy rate was second only to Kerala. In the 1960s, Bengal was economically stronger than Maharashtra. But then the state’s average growth of GSDP between 2012-13 and 2017-18 was around 5.5%, lower than the national average of 7.1%. What happened?

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0:00 Introduction
2:02 Industrial decline
3:09 1965 to 1977
6:26 1977 to 1991
8:40 1991 to 2011
11:30 TMC Rule
14:23 Conclusion

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What happened to Bengal’s economy after 1947?

West Bengal was an economic powerhouse post-1947.In 1951, its literacy rate was second only to Kerala. In the 1960s, Bengal was economically stronger than Maharashtra. But then the state’s average growth of GSDP between 2012-13 and 2017-18 was around 5.5%, lower than the national average of 7.1%. What happened?

0. Introduction
https://archive.org/details/dli.MoI.A...
https://archive.org/details/HindSwara...
https://www.jstor.org/stable/3518180?...
https://www.loc.gov/resource/g7650.ct...
https://www.loc.gov/maps/?q=india
https://www.loc.gov/photos/?q=bengal
http://www.iosrjournals.org/iosr-jhss...
https://www.flickr.com/photos/ywcausa...
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/22979...
https://www.jstor.org/stable/4407407?...
http://www.econ.ucla.edu/people/paper...
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full...

1. Industrial decline
https://media.economics.uconn.edu/wor...
http://www.econ.ucla.edu/people/paper...
https://www.jstor.org/stable/4407407
https://www.jstor.org/stable/4416669?...
https://assets.publishing.service.gov...

2. 1965-77
https://assets.publishing.service.gov...
http://www.econ.ucla.edu/people/paper...
https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper...
http://barrett.dyson.cornell.edu/NEUD...

3. 1977-91
https://assets.publishing.service.gov...
https://media.economics.uconn.edu/wor...

4. 1991-2011
https://assets.publishing.service.gov...
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science...
   • The beginning of the end of Nano dream?  
https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/62566...

5. 2011 onwards
https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-...
http://www.igidr.ac.in/pdf/publicatio...
https://www.indiaspend.com/how-west-b...
https://www.livemint.com/Politics/1Ss...

6. Solutions
https://theprint.in/india/governance/...
https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-...
https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-...