When Did India Become Modern

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What does it mean to be modern? A modern society/country is one in which the society is largely well taken care of by an economy which percolates down to masses so that they have a good living standard, education, earning power, spending power and the ability to have fun.

When did India become modern? The process of modernism started only after 1947, i.e after independence. We are not truly modern yet but we are getting there.

-Digvijay
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By your definition which is the most modern state in the world today?

Second question - as per your definition of modern, which country in the world first became truly modern and what were the indicators of it having become modern?
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BTW, there is one more thing to add in describing a modern state and that is the ability of its population to choose/change its rulers.

So most modern states on the planet would be :

US/Japan/Britain/Canada etc.

-Digvijay