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Historically, headline inflation in India was primarily measured using which index?

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1Wholesale Price Index (WPI)✓
2Consumer Price Index (CPI)
3GDP Deflator
4Index of Industrial Production (IIP)

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Wholesale Price Index (WPI)

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