Yup. I also know that the difference is fairly marginal and that India's GDP was actually greater than the UK's prior to Covid.
Further, I know that a far more reliable of economic success or failure is the level of a country's debt when expressed as a percentage of GDP. The UK has a higher percentage than India does:
https://countryeconomy.com/countries/compare/india/uk?sc=XE02
On the inception of FREEDOM 1947 - it was widely believed this would unleash the Indian Century
Large industry, which the Japanese had strategically decided NOT to bomb.
all you can say is: the long expected Indian century of Indian dominance of the world..... did not occur