Some thoughts on Indian population and politics :
If you start doing a root cause analysis of why India is a poor, dirty and underdeveloped country, you will eventually reach the conclusion that 75% of the country is a useless deadweight.
If you start doing a root cause analysis of why India is a poor, dirty and underdeveloped country, you will eventually reach the conclusion that 75% of the country is a useless deadweight.
In tune with this, every political ideology that is born here has to take this in account, be it Gandhi's secular non-violence, Savarkar's Hindutva or Jinnah's Islamism. When we delve deeper, we find that the old congress elite acknowledged it well.
Think of the 1950s & 60s, the country is new, poor, illiterate & fragile. It faces danger from Pakistan (from both sides), a newly formed China from outside & communist revolutions, linguistic chauvinism from the inside. The country can fall back into anarchy any time.
But the congress elite is smart, be it Nehru, Patel, Shastri or Indira. They are aware how the Indian population is, they don't dream of greatness, maybe they are short-sighted & not ambitious but surely they are capable enough to hold a fragile nation together.
They make sure that the 5% productive population does not have to face the anarchy of the mob, they open some decent institutions like IIT, do enough to keep India militarily secure & provide some high culture to the masses in the form of cricket and cinema.
This was perhaps how India was supposed to function, the productive 5% being in total disconnect with the deadweight 75% with a struggling 20% middle class aspiring to escape.
All of this would go into vain in the 90s as Mandal & Kamandal make sure that the worlds mix & we get back to anarchy. The LPG reforms of Congress would get cancelled by the Mandal of Janta Party & the Kamandal of RSS.
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