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Inflation affects growth only if it is too high or too low. India never had so high inflation that it would have affected growth. For a low per capita income country like India demand is always there. Growth depends on how you remove constrains on supply side. Modi has done precisely that by making business easy. Thats why growth is a bit up. Inflation & interest rates a bit up or down does not matter much for India. This is not the case for high per capita income country like US where demand is weak & dependent on interest rates.
I know all the theory you quoted but in practical world things does not work like in theory.
Depends on your definition of acceptable inflation - In India any figure above 6% is abysmal and as you yourself said that the constraints are on supply side and with demand being there ramping up of supply side infrastructure should not lead to hike in prices i.e. inflation but we don't see it happening. Now why is that ?
The answer is multiple factors which include artificial fixing of price at unrealistic level, speculation and hoarding, forged books to keep the company afloat by creating a chimera of profitability, dumping of goods by China leading to oversupply by Indian manufacturers etc etc.
As for your statement regarding in India things like inflation and interest rate don't matter much and India never had high inflation etc I don't know what to say. I can quote multiple statements by RBI Governors, Fin Mins, leading economists and industrialists etc saying just the opposite but perhaps it would be easier if you do a simple google search.
For your kind information acceptable inflation 2-6% as per RBI itself. Now a simple search for historic data on inflation on nominal basis would say when did the inflation cross the threshold and what measures did RBI and Government take to bring it back to acceptable figures.
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