Bharat Shetty [11/05/09 08:38 -0400]:
discussions I've had. Is it true that the internal conflicts transcending over various factors like religions, caste coupled with bad governance, mismanagement didn't help India to develop after Independence ?
You'll hear a lot about how india's economy would have improved if nehru had listened to rajaji instead of believing socialistic nonsense and also listened to sardar patel instead of his vague egalitarianism, hindi chini bhai bhai etc. India actually had a pretty decent balance of money left after independence (also true that there was grinding poverty as well), and a planned economy certainly squandered a lot of it.
Why are European countries like Germany, France, UK are developed well ? Because they were imperialistic or because of good governance after hitler rule in Germany and imperalistic rules in other places ? What
Call it good governance, call it much smaller countries with a much higher level of education and a larger industrial base (admittedly one that had to be patched up after all the bombs, converted to civilian use after producing war materiel for several years ..)
is causing Bulgaria to develop well ? Poland which was under communist rule is developed country ? If these are developing rapidly why is it so ? Because of lesser conflicts compared to India ?
A good way to go would be to avoid reading both leftist and right wing historians at the same time.
