"...Japan has assimilated Western science and organization and even in many respects excelled its teachers; India has failed in this all-important task of assimi-
lation." The Bourgeois and the Samurai by Sri Aurobindo.
The type of human character which dominated India and Japan when they came in contact with the Western powers.
The type of human character which dominated ancient India and medieval India before the bourgeois became dominant.
"He was asked to stand as the head of a disarmed and dependent society, secured from external disturbance & tied down to a rigid internal tranquillity by the deprivation of all functions except those of breadwinner and taxpayer." The development of the bourgeois.
"A people true to itself, a race that hopes to live, will not comfort itself and sap its manhood by opiate of empty formulas and specious falsehoods, it will prefer eternal suffering and disaster."