The India you're talking is India who got depleted, sucked, trampled country after 2 centuries of British hegemony. Stop your illogical and thinly vieled racism to justify why countries like India are the way they are like.
The India you're talking is India who got depleted, sucked, trampled country after 2 centuries of British hegemony. Stop your illogical and thinly vieled racism to justify why countries like India are the way they are like.
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Except how did the West get into a position of being more powerful than the rest of the world?
Around 1600, the various Western countries, the Ottomans, Mughal-ruled India, and Imperial China weren't too different in development (the non-Euro folks could actually have been considered more developed). By the late-1700s / early-1800s the Europeans were steamrolling over everyone.
What changed in those ~150 years?
A good book on the topic is Intellectual Curiosity and the Scientific Revolution by Toby Huff:
* https://www.cambridge.org/9780521170529
It explores an interesting accidental historical experiment: the telescope was invented in 1608 in the Netherlands, and in the next ~20 years had spread to most of the world's major civilizations. What various cultures did with it (or not) explains why Europe took off.
See also The Rise of Early Modern Science: Islam, China and the West by the same author:
* https://www.cambridge.org/9781107130210
Yes, the Europeans did a whole bunch of awful things: but what gave them the power to do so?
Europe kept developing after 1600; not-Europe stayed the same/stagnated in the same time period. For example: everyone's star counts were the same (~2300) using the naked eye up to 1600, but only the Europeans' increased afterward even though the Europeans gave the Indians and Chineses telescope and taught them how to make more.
Indeed Nehru (first govt head of free India) put the foundations of scientific thinking in India. Built great institutions and foundations of IIT, BARC. But India capitulated it's advance to religion and tribal mentality.
Funny enough even today people like religion based leaders and chosen a government whose head proclaims in a science conference that before England invaded, India invented atomic bomb, aeroplane during ancient time of Lord Ram (a deity) and invitro fertilization during Mahabharata (religious book). India really needs a science revolution who can throw such leaders out and chose at least an educated one who understands science, that's the only way to bring up scientific temperament and progress. This will help avoid attacking neighbors or take religion driven populist changes to divert attention from real issues.
I understand racism in Indian context means untouchables, social class hierarchy, killing a person for transporting cows or marrying out of prescribed social order. I am not talking about it.
Also US don't give bags of money to anyone, indeed it needs bags of money from others on the contrary. Please read about debt levels and treasury bonds. USA developed because of its university and scientific temperament. Hopefully it continues as it is good for everyone.
Infact India has by far the better textbooks compared to developed countries like US. No one questions Theory of Evolution but many Christian schools and Islamic countries teach students to question this. Similarly abortion, anti-vax etc. Looks like US is suffering from religious-tribalism.
I was wrong to assume your were from some Western country and used the word "racism". The right word is Hinduphobia. When India is defending itself from neighboring country which named it's country, constitution based on religion, you are terming this defense as some sort of religious chavunism.
Many abhramic religions teach hatred towards polytheistic and idol worshipping religions like Hindusism and call it pagans and what not names. I believe you're indulging into same and spewing a hatred for Hinduism and spreading Hinduphobia disguised as 'religious-tribalism' word.