6th February 1657
The expo held two days ago led all the companies that received orders from the Europeans to immediately start working overtime.
Although the market for industrial goods in the Bharatiya Empire is not nonexistent, it can be said that the market is very small. Even now, the middle class in the empire, which is on the rise, constitutes less than 20% when considering only the southern part of the empire. When considering the entire empire, this percentage does not even reach 5%.
It is true that even this 5% middle class in an empire with a population of nearly 190,000,000 amounts to several million people, which is a large market. However, unlike European countries where the population is densely concentrated, Bharath is a vast country spanning 4.5 million square kilometres. With only a few million people spread across such a large area, it is almost impossible for companies to cater to this market.
