India, Sept. 19 -- justify;">The first article of this three-part series explained the importance of boosting manufacturing to improve India's living standards and cited its key role in the economic rise of China. To repeat the cliched question of how India can emulate the Chinese path in boosting manufacturing, one needs to begin by underlining the fact that manufacturing shows large inter-state variation in India. Here are four charts which explain this in detail.

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