India’s economy grew 7.8% in the April–June quarter, beating forecasts and outpacing cooling major peers such as the United States, China and Japan, but the print remains contested after former finance secretary Subhash Chandra Garg alleged that year-earlier nominal GDP was cut by ₹6 trillion ($63.5 billion) to ₹80 trillion, flattering the latest ₹88.27 trillion reading. Real output was about ₹81.36 trillion versus ₹75.46 trillion a year earlier. Chief Economic Adviser V. Anantha Nageshwaran called the critique cherry-picking under a new base year ending March 2023, saying methodological revisions can raise some quarters and lower others, while Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal insisted the 7.8% growth is real. The Congress party backed Garg and claimed GDP over four years had been revised down by ₹43 lakh crore ($455 billion). The IMF previously gave India’s data a C grade over accuracy concerns that a February statistical overhaul sought to address. Economists remain split: some say Garg’s cross-base comparison is technically unsound, while others argue better methodology—not froth alone—supports the print and that high-frequency indicators are holding up, even as investment- and export-led gains with milder consumption look hard to sustain and Morgan Stanley and Citi forecast 7.3% growth for the year ending March 2027.