On Gandhi and Indian Modernization

Jess 2022-01-26 08:03:55

Politically, modernization is actually a change in the social structure,
that is, the self-sufficiency of agricultural society will inevitably lead to the centrifugal from local to the central. The actual owner of the state is local landlords and bureaucrats. There are multiple layers of rentier strata between the state and the people. no need to communicate the status of national citizens have no national consciousness is much larger than his actual ability revolution is to break the division between this region only the formation of the unity of the same nation-state independent of other nation-states which would form the largest range of a collective
of China The situation is that there are proletarians (peasants) and non-proletarians. The number of proletarians has an absolute advantage, which makes it possible for the proletariat to become the core of the revolution and lead other classes. The first part is to resolve the contradictions between the nations. The united proletariat is actually a united nation. A united nation expelling other nations is easy to do. The second part is to solve the class problem. Due to the absolute superiority of the proletariat and strong means to unify and consolidate, this is the birth of the nation-state, external independence and internal control
. The situation in India Yes, Hinduism and Islam exist. For Indians, their sectarian consciousness is stronger. Class consciousness is weak. But neither of the two has an overwhelming advantage. Although there are many more Hindus than Muslims, the advantages vary from region to region. The north is dominated by Islam. controlled Gandhi good choice for the unity of the Indian national approach religion
in religion and class here is only as a symbol of collective identity individual of their role is the same as the national unity and the exclusive external unity of a squad likely to please alien rule the independence of India but the problem emerged after the disappearance of the original large external comrades would become the new exclusive objects and religious conflicts become new conflicts and religious conflicts like the Chinese, like
how to say India's victory in the liberation war but Failed objectively, neither Hinduism nor Islam have absolute superiority subjectively listed Gandhi's principle of non-violence In fact, the negative inclusiveness and inertia of Indian culture Gandhi wants to pay the least cost to complete the construction of the nation-state is non-violence, but such change is weak powerless
Anyway India so far can not be considered complete modern nation-states
we had better have a look at Naipaul's India trilogy

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  • Jennyfer 2022-03-23 09:01:25

    It's very long, and I don't know much about Indian history, so this kind of biopic doesn't seem to feel good

  • Erika 2022-03-20 09:01:21

    After waiting for "Aung San Suu Kyi" and so on, I watched Gandhi first. This film is more than 3 hours, trying to analyze the whole of Gandhi's "non-violent non-cooperation" thought, but it is difficult to escape Gandhi's spiritual admiration. The objectiveness of the narrative structure makes the whole film more rational. At the beginning of the film, Gandhi was assassinated, the flashback began, and Gandhi was assassinated at the end.

Gandhi quotes

  • Gandhi: I want to welcome you all. Every one of you. We have no secrets. Let us begin by being clear... about General Smuts' new law. All Indians must now be fingerprinted... like criminals. Men and women. No marriage other than a Christian marriage is considered valid. Under this act our wives and mothers are whores. And every man here is a bastard.

    Kahn: He has become quite good at this.

    Gandhi: And a policeman passing an Indian dwelling, I will not call them homes, may enter and demand the card of any Indian woman whose dwelling it is.

  • Nehru: Think of what you can do by living, that you cannot do by dying... What do you want?

    Gandhi: That the fighting will stop. That you make me believe it will never start again.