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A fact from Economy of the Kingdom of Mysore appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 16 October 2007. The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that technology from 18th-century France and China was used to improve the economy of Mysore kingdom?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2007/October.

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world's highest real wages and living standards

Not supported by the sources given which apply only to a single industry (weavers) or to a different millennia (the $400 figure). See this reddit comment for more details:

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/7wlxd4/under_tipu_sultan_mysore_had_some_of_the_worlds/du235jg/

©Geni (talk) 07:57, 11 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]