11-26-2006, 06:38 PM
<!--QuoteBegin-suresh+Nov 26 2006, 06:14 PM-->QUOTE(suresh @ Nov 26 2006, 06:14 PM)<!--QuoteEBegin-->If it's historical, 'modern India' was born at the time of industrial revolution.
OTOH, if 'modern' refers to advancement, then one must submit that India is not a modern nation. There is a lack of advancement in various fields, including technology, medicine, and so on. Human rights abuses are rampant. Basic hygeine is missing. All this is hardly modern.
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Thats a very generalized statement. By your standards more than half the countries in the modern world would not be "modern". But I guess if you see the history over a period of time, you would definitely see a lot of difference between India in 1900s and India in recent times. So also there would be a lot of difference between India of 18th century vis-a-vis 19th century.
We need to maybe decide on the changes that had made our nation decidedly modern.
OTOH, if 'modern' refers to advancement, then one must submit that India is not a modern nation. There is a lack of advancement in various fields, including technology, medicine, and so on. Human rights abuses are rampant. Basic hygeine is missing. All this is hardly modern.
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Thats a very generalized statement. By your standards more than half the countries in the modern world would not be "modern". But I guess if you see the history over a period of time, you would definitely see a lot of difference between India in 1900s and India in recent times. So also there would be a lot of difference between India of 18th century vis-a-vis 19th century.
We need to maybe decide on the changes that had made our nation decidedly modern.