Prime Minister Narendra Modi Saturday said the term “Hindu rate of growth” reflected a colonial mindset that linked India’s slow economic performance in earlier decades to the faith and identity of its people.

Speaking at the Hindustan Times Leadership Summit, PM Modi said, “The term Hindu rate of growth was used when India was struggling for 2–3 per cent growth. Our entire civilisation was given a tag of unproductivity and poverty using this term. No one found it communal back then.”

“The policy of Macaulay, which sowed the seeds of mental slavery in India, will complete 200 years in 2035. This means there are 10 years left. Therefore, in these very 10 years, we all must come together to free our country from the slave mentality,” he said.

“Linking the growth of the country with the fa

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