Re: Why India Became a Democracy and Pakistan Did not
Stick to the discussion huh
The discussion is why India is democracy and why Pakistan isn't. The two countries that diverged from each other at one point in the history. Its not about why Iran/Afghanistan or China did or did not do something.
I have presented my view as to why this did not happen.
You are not alone in saying "You all look brown, so why you have different names" type racial and stereotypical analysis. Writers like Tom Friedman commit the same blunder.
The same Tom Friedman doesn't go to Europe and say "You all look white, so why you have so many different systems of government".
Systems of government evolve over time, and they are driven by complex set of historical and cultural factors.
Anyone with some basic knowledge knows that British-India was a collection of many many states with unique culture, and history.
Still one could lump them together in four distinct regions.
- The central northern region of British India,
- The central Southern region of British India
- Eastern border regions
- Western border regions.
Region #1, #2 , and #3 (minus E. Bengal) were combined and they gave birth to modern day India
Region #3 and 4 were combined and they gave birth to the then Pakistan.
Fast forward 30 odd years and Regions #3 and #4 went their separate ways and now they are BDesh, and Pakistan respectively.
Each of these regions have further divisions and thus differing trends towards democracy.
And those trends are driven by very complex set of drivers that include the level of industrialization, agriculture, religion, the level of nationalism, the role of military, the history of schools, and above all the degree of submissiveness to the authority.
But the biggest factor driving the trends is the relative size and strength of army.
Had Indian army not played its strong role against Nizam, Junagadh and later militant movements in Kashmir, Punjab, Assam, Andhra etc., Indian state would have gone into an emergency state the same way as Pakistan has.
Just remember why Indira had to clamp emergency. And believe me it was just one state out of 25+ that almost brought down the whole dhoom-cracy drama.
Pakistan being 1/10 of India had to face off much larger amount of internal and external anarchist factors.
These factors may or may not have anything to do with 4 ana membership, or someone wearing dhoti vs. 3 piece Western clothes.
So the people who love dhoti, should move to India, and leave the followers of 3 piece Western clothes in Pakistan. Thank you.