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The term ‘Hindu rate of growth’ is generally used in common parlance w.r.t. Indian economic situation of the 1970s and 1980s. What does this term mean?

It is used to characterise the slow growth and to explain it against the backdrop of socialistic economic policies.

It is used to characterise the low economic growth of the Hindu dominated regions of India

It is an indicator of the population growth rate of Hindus in the 1970s and 1980s

None of the above

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Explanation:

Professor Rajkrishna, an Indian economist, coined the term ‘Hindu rate of growth’ in 1978 to characterise the slow growth and to explain it against the backdrop of socialistic economic policies.
The Hindu rate of growth is a term referring to the low annual growth rate of the planned economy of India before the liberalisations of 1991, which stagnated around 3.5% from 1950s to 1980s, while per capita income growth averaged 1.3%
The word "Hindu" in the term was used by some early economists to imply that the Hindu outlook of fatalism and contentedness was responsible for the slow growth. The later economists attribute the rate to the Government of India's protectionist and interventionist policies (see Licence Raj), rather than to a specific religion or to the attitude of the adherents of a particular religion.