Poverty in India..why?

India is poor today because of centuries of impoverishment caused by foreign rules (British for 200 years and Afghans for 700 years) Peasant was always kept poor. And somehow he evolved social practices to live with poverty...living on minimum. Present government also tries to perpetuate poverty, it gives rights to capitalists to exploit the poverty stricken people. Social history goes on repeating itself. Poor are getting poorer. There are case studies to prove how the poor go on tolerating impoverishment
http://www.epw.in/system/files/pdf/2015_50/26-27/Debt_Bondage_and_the_Tricks_of_Capital.pdf