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Main Point - The history of modern India shows that poor diverse countries can be successful democracies.
Main Point - The ability of India to become a successful democratic country is a legacy of British imperialism.
Main Point - The process of urbanization currently happening in India resembles what happened in Britain during the Industrial Revolution.
Main Point - The current Indian government is improving India by growing the economy while also dividing India with its policy of Hindu nationalism.
Homework # 3 - Modern India
Homework # 3 - Modern India
Reading - Modern India - click here
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Source # 1 - India Rising off the Grid - click here
Source # 2 - How India Runs the Worlds Largest Elections - click here
Source # 3 - Indian Heatwave, Global Warming & Agriculture - click here
Classwork # 3 - Modern India
Classwork # 3 - Modern India
Source - Life Expectancy and Per Capita Income in India
Source - Comparison of Population Density in India to the United States (Link for Interactive Map)
Source - Visual showing the range of GDP per capita in different states within India.
Source - Gandhi describing his economic ideas (1936)
I would say that if the village perishes India will perish too. India will be no more India. Her mission in the world will get lost. The revival of the village is possible only when it is no more exploited. Industrialization on a mass scale will necessarily lead to passive or active exploitation of the villages as the problems of competition and marketing come in. Therefore we have to concentrate on the village being self-contained, manufacturing mainly for use.
Source- Excerpt from a letter Gandhi wrote to Nehru in October 1945 about villages in India
I am convinced that if India is to attain true freedom and though India the world also, then sooner or later the fact must be recognized that people will have to live in villages, not in towns, in huts, not in palaces. People will never be able to live at peace with each other in towns and palaces... I hold that without truth and non-violence there can be nothing but destruction for humanity. We can realize truth and non-violence only in the simplicity of village life and this simplicity can best be found in the spinning wheel ... You must not imagine that I am not envisaging out village life as it is today... My ideal village will be contain intelligent human beings. They will not live in the dirt and darkness of animals. Men and women will be free and able to hold their own against anyone in the world. There will be neither cholera nor smallpox; no one will be idle, no one will wallow in luxury. everyone will have to contribute his quota of manual labor.
Source - Excerpt from Nehru's letter of reply to Gandhi in October 1945 about villages in India
Briefly, put my view is that the question before us is not one of truth versus untruth or non-violence verses violence. One assumes as one must that true co-operation and peaceful methods must be aimed at and a society which encourages these must be our objective. The whole question is how to achieve this society and what its content should be. I do not understand why a village should necessarily embody truth and non-violence. A village, normally speaking, is backward intellectually and culturally and no progress can be made from a backward environment. Narrow-minded people are much more likely to be untruthful and violent.
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