The line chart shows how the debt situation varied for India starting 1913 to 2011. The idea is to look at the cause-effect relationships between any internal/global economic activities and debt spikes. The dataset comes from the IMF Website.

Other Sources:

http://www.economicsdiscussion.net/government/debt/public-debt-before-and-after-independence-in-india/21261

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Depression_in_India

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_liberalisation_in_India