"China is/was/will never behind India, even during those hardest days"
Really...Check 1940s GDP data...!
Stoping dreaming! Full scale Japanese invasion started at 1938 -- Second Sino-Japanese war, lasting for 8 years. So what GDP data you are talking about? If there was any reliable data avalaible? If that's "all" one could count, not substantial hidden amount during war time when enermy troopers were just in front of your street corner? And who was the one counting those data, I wonder?