1.IMHO, india's problem is that India has not solved the problems of land distribution.
In the name of "inviolability of private property" , pre-modern land distribution system in fact is still kept in south Asia,including India.
On paper, Indian law set the upper limit of land ownership. but Indian people here should all know that is just " On paper". In real life, many indian landlords owns much more land than law regulates.
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such a obsolete land system is the biggest barrier to the development of South Asia.
In India, the land system deprives poor rural peasants's of the hope to own their own land and make them marginalized more in the tide of globalization. that is why so many rural India peasants become "maoists".
Morever, such a land distribution makes land too costly to industrialization. India government always find it very hard to fish out enough land for its "ambitious plan of industry zoos ".
In pakistan,Combined with tribe politics, rich Pakistani landocracy in fact monopolize political power. the clan of Bhutto the clan of Sharif are both the "tribal chieves" and top landlords. tribes are the base of their politcal influence while their enormous lands provide them enough wealth to run politics.
3. East Asia, including Japan.Two Koreas, PRC and Taiwan all used to have such similar obsolete pre-modern land distribution system. but they all broke such obstolete system before mid-1950s.
Thomas Jefferson said:"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants".
India people got independent without violence.Theresults is that india after independence is same with the British india.
The only difference is the british governor was removed.
Indian people still ruled by Brahmen and their proxies.The low caste people' son are still low caste people.
The social status were inherited,which is the biggest inequality.
It tell us everything that India have the world's most wealthy people and at the same time india have the largest group of people under the international poverty line.
Fortunately,Indian people are devoted follower of gods.So the extravagant rulers could enjoy their ruling without concerning the poor farmers/dalits/slumdogs is going to overthrow them.
Yes, we have problems with land distribution. Yes, peasant farmers are exploited and profited from by capitalist landlords seeking to aggrandize themselves at their expense. Yes, the government encounters problems with claiming and acquiring land for SEZ's. But
never in the history of independent India have we been subject to such such violent upheavals and political and economic vacillations as China.
Never. Read carefully.
Just as our democracy has myriad problems, it also serves as a vanguard against excesses by the state. Which is why we have not witnessed
anything as remotely catastrophic as the "Great Leap For[Back]ward" and the ensuing famine that claimed over 35 million lives, lasted for more than 3 years with a seemingly obtuse state oblivious to the concerns of its citizens and stuck in the nightmarish quagmire of static state policy in a situation of economic ruin that saw no end.... Which is why we have not experienced anything as
remotely noisome as the 'Cultural Re(de)volution' that claimed, over the course of 10 years, 60 million lives, and resulted in nationwide chaos and disarray.
You see, although you consider yourselves a 'peoples' polity', you have really been subject to the whims and fancies of one man. I shudder to think at what might have happened if Zhang Chunqiao, Wang Hong wen and his 'Gang of Four' had 'seized power' after Mao's death. Or even if Hua Guofeng and the restorationists among the 'liberal' camp of the CCP had trampled Deng Xiaoping and held on to power post 1981. Your present successes are largely due to one man: Deng Xiaoping and his political brilliance: his vision of economic reform, and
most importantly, his ability to outmaneuver his opponents. You see, your history has essentially been defined by a series of
fortuitous events, make no mistake about that, and therefore hangs precariously in the balance. In India, the
system precludes such vacillations. Because there is a plethora of leadership that is ultimately,
always accountable to the people. I compare this to the two-trains analogy: one of a train that is moving slower but with far less chance of being derailed; the other of one that is presently moving faster on the right course, but that has frequently been derailed in the past, with calamitous effect. If this is the level of cadence the Chinese Peoples' Republic has been subject to throughout its 60 year history, I'd take democracy for sure.
Never in the litany of modern-day India, has India witnessed such famines on the scale of the 'Great Leap Forward', such violent excesses and retrogression as that of 'Cultural Devolution', or such recidivism and reactionism as that of cult-made personalities such as Mao The Dong . The worst excesses by the state, such as the Gujarat genocide of 2002, or the Babri masjid demolition in '92 have numbered in the thousands; and every time the government has got its comeuppance, whether it is in the erosion of popular support, the loss of elections, the exposure of corruption, the media lambaste of individuals, the gradual rejection of a communal animus, and even today the making of a party into an insignificant force that is on the sidelines of national electoral politics.
Ever wonder why so much seems to be going 'wrong' in India at any one time? It is because the media actually digs up and
exposes [and on occasion, exaggerates] such things to keep our leaders in check. A glance at the Transparency International Ratings will show you that there is not much difference between the corruption standings of India and China: China ranks 72 on the scale with India at 84 [however, there are several countries that occupy a single rank in the intermediate range, making the difference between the two that of only 3 ranks]. Despite valiant attempts to keep them in the closet, regular upheavals
still occur in China: take for example the statistic by the the BBC, the Economist, JSTOR and various other magazines doing grassroots research in 2007 that estimated there were "300-500" rural riots a day. Or if you prefer, the claim by Liu Jinguo, vice minister of the Ministry of Public Security [exaggerated of course], who posited that the Chinese police had dealt with "17,900 "mass incidents"" from January to September in 2006. Political fronting is a very real phenomenon in China: with the latent
Uighur insurgency, the Tibetan uprising or rural/industrial discontent as recent events demonstrate.
Nobel laureate Amartya Sen has empirically proved that "in the great history of famines, no substantial famine has ever occurred in any independent and democratic country with a relatively free press". The is
no exception. In the case of India and China, an analysis of the last 60 years will show that that argument extends to the magnitude of political upheavals as well. Nations rise, nations fall. You are presently on top. Don't knock it while you got it.
