According to various studies, in 1918, the Spanish flu epidemic killed at least 50 million people worldwide and an estimated 20 million people died in India. The economic-historians Chinmay Tumbe, Mahatma Gandhi and Premchand were also suspected, patients. Due to this global epidemic, India’s GDP rate was -10.5% and inflation reached an all-time high.
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