The root cause of Indias ill while Chinas rise stems from both nations diverging founding economic and political institutions.India was founded by the Congress Party and its ruling intellectuals concept for India.That concept saw India as a society to be constructed via long term adoption of western ideas and values and even technology over a long long period with hesitancy to adopt new technologies in a sense it was very conservative.Figures like Ghandi represented the most conservative and traditionalist of these ruling elements promoting traditional rural way of life and “simple living” as ideal as opposed to industrial development,Nehru adopted a good amount of these ideas as gospel,while also respecting some of his more educated forward seeking colleges, such as Lal Bahadur Shastri ,at the same time reactionary elements like RSS were allowed to run around the country and communist elements also existed.India naturally was a country undecided as to if it should stay in the past or adopt the future?This bipolar disorder led to bipolar policies,India would in one hand adopt green revolution while promoting organic farming,it would pass land reform that put a ceiling in rural households farm size but not break up rural plantations and conglomerates meaning these policies actually contributed to landlessness which wasn’t the intended effect now today India has 40% of its rural population as landless 300 million people who have no self subsistence and must depend on government and seasonal work(natural target for Modi mafia).India brought in business while denying permits to those businesses to do very little did state nationalization while refusing to use those state industries to integrate union leaders and engineers as head of those state companies instead placing the same business moguls of those “nationalized” enterprises as head of these “state” industries.Instead of abolishing caste system it simply created a new complex system of intercaste relations a “separate but equal” style policy.Naturally is it any wonder India has not developed?India has not broken from the past systems that held it down but keeps it and now with Modi they have doubled down on their own failed system and even go around the world telling everyone how great their eternal dharma system is and so on.How different was China ,China realized as a society that its decline had been because it had trusted too much on the old system,the old system had allowed China to remain a global power for 1000 years but not anymore it needed to change.They and realized that their arrogance in not changing those systems had allowed for their downfall.Of course there was time of excess like Cultural Revolution were some went so far as to make China unrecognizable but China has moved away from those days.While India basically kept peasants with same relations of thousands of years ago China did land reform finally allowing many to make income for first time and grow their wealth expand production using better technology like tractors and so forth use fertilizers for soil.While India kept it’s population uneducated while building lavish temples China broke down temple dynasties like Tibet while education millions across the country.While India continues to bet its money on “organic” agriculture China is pioneering new advance farming methods like vertical farms and factory grown food.India today is a 70% consumer society with no much to consume little production to show for it,while China has only 30% of gdp as consumption,many have said this as a bad thing but its other way it means China prioritizes using resources to produce better products to build capital stock while India focuses on consuming the little it produces now in the short term.I think unless India has a radical change in its society economy politics and creates a more balanced view on religion and tradition it will continue to lag behind .
What a ridiculously simplistic and historically illiterate take. To reduce India’s complex post-colonial journey to a binary of “stuck in the past” versus “embracing the future” is laughable. The Congress party’s vision, for all its flaws, built a resilient democracy and prevented the kind of societal fractures China experienced. The Green Revolution saved millions from famine. To blame Gandhi for holding back industrial development ignores his critique of exploitative industrialization. China’s “success” came at an unimaginable human cost—the Cultural Revolution wasn’t just “a time of excess,” it was a societal catastrophe. India’s path, with all its messy democracy and debate, is slower but more sustainable. This post reads like CCP propaganda praising top-down authoritarian efficiency while dismissing the value of pluralism and individual liberty.
My friend it is also simplistic to say India during 1947-1977 was pluralistic the congress had a stranglehold on nearly all institutions and had a dictatorship during the emergency period.I mentioned the green revolution saying that in the one hand India embraced it while embracing organic agriculture and simple living.It sounds nice on paper but in practice these policies of trying to promote organic agriculture meant lower yields,the agricultural policies in India during this time and in general have been a mix of everything master of none.India has not embraced free market corporate conglomerate agriculture like New Zealand Brazil ,nor subsidized small farmer agriculture like U.S. and China have done or even state controlled agriculture during the so called socialist time instead India since independence has had a confusing system of property relations that has kept the countries agricultural potential back.And this is just in agriculture across other things India has been very very similar like business.How many times has India brought businessmen in with free market type deals only to then backtrack and put all sorts of permits and things is why business have been leaving India ,is not the regulations per say China probably has about the same and EU is full of red tape regulations but they are consistent India is not.