India's Rise is no Miracle.....Dear West
The so called concept of "India's Poverty" is not too old. Historically South Asia has always been famous for its prosperity.From the time Alexander invaded this land from across the mountains of Hindukush, the Europeans have always been delged by its wealth। The Greek geographers described India as a land, where huge ants disgorged gold from the earth and mystic beings protected it।It was said that priceless ornaments were scattered here as if dust . If we consider 17Th century Mughal period, when it was on its peak.Then the only dynasty which could have competed with it was China's Ming Dynasty. They were considered the signature of entity and prosperity.In his epic "Paradise Lost" milton takes Adam to the Mughal period 'Agra' and 'Lahore' to show him the future miracles of God.17Th century Lahore was much more larger and prosperous than that Constantinople. Even London and Paris seem small in front of this city with a population of twenty lacks. But after the intrusion of European colonization everything got changed.From the time Vasco-da-gama found the sea route to India. The Portuguese were the first to India from this route, then were the Dutch and last came the British. With their cannons, corvettes and their imperialism controlled economy they destroyed the local trade system. At the end of 18Th century when the East India Company was formed and it encashed the prosperity of the mughal period, then for the first time ever the trade stability scaled away from Asia towards Europe. From here started the course of Indian deterioration and gradually got deep routed. During the establishment of East India Company Britain only held 1.8 % of the World G.D.P. with India's 22.5 %share of worlds G.D.P.. In the year 1870 when the British rule was at its zenith, Britain's share rose to 9.1%, and this was the for the first time became a part of the 'third world.' Now for the whole world India became a sign of Dearth and Poverty. And today when India and China are again rising towards the Everest of the development, the western media is nowhere behind in projecting it as, its a miracle. But its no miracle , they are returning to their ancient and medieval crescendo of world trade. To the period when the gold from the west came as a payment to the east for its Species and Silk. It gave all the luxuries to these countries that the Capitals of Europe cant even imagine. All this is important to be noticed because it's India's ambition to become a super power. The economic prediction making Fraternity agree India and China will rule the world economy of the 21st century. Different estimates show that, considering the account of dollar, China would leave U.S. far behind by 2030 to 2040 and India would be Ahead of it by 2050. In terms of purchasing power India is almost ahead of Japan and would become worlds third largest economy.
Now we return to the India of auagust 1947 which the British left. To tell you that there is so much that the west influenced India. The British gave many useful things of day-to-day life and also TEA (however it was cultivated much earlier than the britsh came but came into mass after their advent). The other important thing was DEMOCRACY(ofcourse the so called morden democracy), rule of Law, railways, cricket. To some extent all this contributed to India's economic rebirth. But Britain should keep Nostalgia of these things limited. Their mega irrigation projects, their so called unique models of engeneering, and ofcourse their tradition of Bribes and gifts to the officers of Indian Civil Sercvices and other such Crappy traditions were all established on the destrution of Indian political, cultural ,artistic, moral self confidence. Today the wind is blowing back to the East. The wheel of Time is facing East. Last year the richest man in Europe was of Indian origin 'Laxmi Mittal' steel king. The biggest steel manufacturing company of Europe Corus was Bought by TATA. It was phenominal and it had to happen. India and china are Procouring their ancient status in World trade.the Europians are now not those Armed Colonial Commandes that came loaded over Corvette. They are now returning to their ancient roles :- "Only the consumers of the Precious, Unique, Marvellous and Popular ARTS, FACILITIES and PRODUCTS manufactured by the EAST!"
Now we return to the India of auagust 1947 which the British left. To tell you that there is so much that the west influenced India. The British gave many useful things of day-to-day life and also TEA (however it was cultivated much earlier than the britsh came but came into mass after their advent). The other important thing was DEMOCRACY(ofcourse the so called morden democracy), rule of Law, railways, cricket. To some extent all this contributed to India's economic rebirth. But Britain should keep Nostalgia of these things limited. Their mega irrigation projects, their so called unique models of engeneering, and ofcourse their tradition of Bribes and gifts to the officers of Indian Civil Sercvices and other such Crappy traditions were all established on the destrution of Indian political, cultural ,artistic, moral self confidence. Today the wind is blowing back to the East. The wheel of Time is facing East. Last year the richest man in Europe was of Indian origin 'Laxmi Mittal' steel king. The biggest steel manufacturing company of Europe Corus was Bought by TATA. It was phenominal and it had to happen. India and china are Procouring their ancient status in World trade.the Europians are now not those Armed Colonial Commandes that came loaded over Corvette. They are now returning to their ancient roles :- "Only the consumers of the Precious, Unique, Marvellous and Popular ARTS, FACILITIES and PRODUCTS manufactured by the EAST!"Labels: colonialism, corous, EAST, Ecnomic Boom, India, india and the world, India's Poverty, Ming Dynasty, Miracle, mughal daynasty, prosperity india west, rising, trade, western media, william Darympll
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