03-08-2006, 12:31 AM
Maybe, but we do know for sure that West certainly did benefit from it's 'colonies' or 'slave labor'.
of that there is little doubt - about how much natural resources/money the west owes india and its other colonies. but the question was the opposite one
We could do all this "what-if" jousting to our hearts content, it's not getting us anywhere. For this thread to survive, direction of this thread has to change.
yes. so let me try and do that.
can we have the answers please - what does india owe to the west - instead of answers explaining WHY we couldnt invent much, or whether they ALSO owe us a lot by way of resources, lets just state what each of us members feel, india actually owes to western civilization.
its a pity that we use the british system in toto, viv.a.vis what they gave us. we should have a more india centric set of laws, the govt and the IAS officers should belong to the people of india and not the other way round (a legacy of raj days), we should chuck outdated victorian laws that are still used in our judiciary and get a fresh set of india centric and hindu centric law, we should have a indianised education system and not one that glorifies greece and rome alone while skimming over indian achievements etc. we should also start having product companies and develop upon the technology the poms left us with (for example, we got trains from them. why couldnt we improve upon pom trains on our own?? why do we still borrow technology from germany - as we recently did - to update our trains with the latest technology)
if we manage to do all that, then we will to a great extent manage to unburden ourselves from what the west left us with and be able to claim/say 2 things.
one that we dont owe much to the west. and two we could just as well have come up with these technological and social innovations/systems ourselves.
of that there is little doubt - about how much natural resources/money the west owes india and its other colonies. but the question was the opposite one
We could do all this "what-if" jousting to our hearts content, it's not getting us anywhere. For this thread to survive, direction of this thread has to change.
yes. so let me try and do that.
can we have the answers please - what does india owe to the west - instead of answers explaining WHY we couldnt invent much, or whether they ALSO owe us a lot by way of resources, lets just state what each of us members feel, india actually owes to western civilization.
its a pity that we use the british system in toto, viv.a.vis what they gave us. we should have a more india centric set of laws, the govt and the IAS officers should belong to the people of india and not the other way round (a legacy of raj days), we should chuck outdated victorian laws that are still used in our judiciary and get a fresh set of india centric and hindu centric law, we should have a indianised education system and not one that glorifies greece and rome alone while skimming over indian achievements etc. we should also start having product companies and develop upon the technology the poms left us with (for example, we got trains from them. why couldnt we improve upon pom trains on our own?? why do we still borrow technology from germany - as we recently did - to update our trains with the latest technology)
if we manage to do all that, then we will to a great extent manage to unburden ourselves from what the west left us with and be able to claim/say 2 things.
one that we dont owe much to the west. and two we could just as well have come up with these technological and social innovations/systems ourselves.