INDIA: THE PERCEPTION OF THE

WEST

MULTIRELIGIOUS, MULTICULTURAL AND MULTIETHENIC

IN NATURE
CONTRADICTS THE IDEA OF WESTERN PHILOPHY OF
CONCIEVING A NATION.
THE INDIAN FREEDOM MOVEMENT STANDS AS AN
EXCEPTION TO ANY OF THE HISTORICAL OR
CONTEMPERORY FREEDOM MOVEMENT THAT THE
WEST KNEW ABOUT

WESTERN IDEA OF NATION

ELEMENT OF VOILENCE AND FORCE MUST BE THERE

WHICH WOULD THROW THE PREVIOUS REGIME TO
ESTABLISH NEW NATION.
INDIA MOVEMENT STANDS CONTRARY TO IT
THEY BELIEVED THAT THERE HAS TO BE AN ELEMENT
OF COMMONALITY TO GLUE THE NATION TOGETHER
WHICH FROM THE WESTEN EXPERIENCE WERE
LANGUAGE, RACE OR NATIONALISM.
THE GERMAN AND FRENCH MOVEMENT WERE BASED
O THE CONCEPT OF RACE AND LANGUAGE
RESPECTIVELY.
INDIA LACKED ALL OF THESE FEATURES.

BALKANISATION OF INDIA
India is no nation in itself. It is a
subcontinent of several small nations
which do not have any common language,
race or religion. The British were the only
force that has kept India together and the
effects of their withdrawal can be seen
with the partition of India into India and
Pakistan. The process Balkanization of
India after the withdrawal of British from
India is just a matter of time

Western Idea a failure in

Asia
BANGLADESH
RUSSIA
SRILANKA

BALGLADESH

WESTERN PAKISTAN TRIED TO IMPOSE URDU ON IT.

OPPRESSION ON LANGUAGE WAS ONE OF THE IMP FACTOR
FOR THE DIVISION OF PAKISTAN

RUSSIA

COUNTRY WITH NUMBER OF RACES AND

LANGUAGE
COMMUNISTS TRIED TO FORCE COMMON
LANGUAGE AND NATIONALITY ON PEOPLE
RESULT WAS DISINTEGRATION OF USSR IN 1992

SRILANKA
MAJORITY TRIED TO IMPOSE SINHALESE ON
THE TAMIL SPEAKING PEOPLE.
DISCONTENT STARTED TURNING INTO
VOILENT REACTIONS.
ORGANISATION LIKE LTTE WERE FORMED
LEADING TO DE-FACTO PARTITION OF
SRILANKA
THE REST IS HISTORY

FACTORS UNIFYING INDIA

CIVIL SERVICES: ALL INDIA SERVICES (IAS, IPS AND

IFS)
PLAYED IMPORTANT ROLE IN KEEPING BRITISH INDIA
TOGETHER
PATEL THOUGHT IDEA OF UNIFIED INDIA WOULD BE
IMPOSSIBLE WITHOUT THEM
HELPS IN SMOOTH RUNNING OF GOVERNMENT
ENSURE THAT CENTRAL-STATE RELATIONSHIP
WOULD BE IN HARMONY
FUCTIONS LIKE ELECTION AND PUBLIC SECTORS
ARE ALSO MAINTAINED BY THEM
ARE IN DIRECT CONTACT OF THE PEOPLE SO HELP
IN FORMULATING PUBLIC POLICY

ENGLISH

LANGUAGE

BRITISH LEGACY IN INDIA:DEEPLY INGRAINED

IN THE ADMINSTRATIVE SYSTEM
LINGUA FRANCA FOR THE DIFFERENT STATES
IN INDIA DUE TO THE DIFFERENCE IN THE
LANGUAGE.
SECONDARY OFFICIAL LANGUAGE OF INDIA
AND MEANS OF COMMUNICATION BETWEEN
DIFFERENT STATES IN INDIA.
LEADERS LIKE PATEL AND NEHRU
SUPPORTED IT AND HELPED IN ITS FURTHER
DEVELOPMENT
CREATED A FAMILIAR ENVIRONMENT FOR
THE FOREIGNERS

C. RAJGOPALACHARI

THE ENGLISH UPON LEAVING LEFT A VAST LITERATURE OF

ENGLISH IN INDIA. I DONT KNOW THE REASON OF THIS ACT BUT I
THINK THAT THEY LEFT ENGLISH HERE FOR GOOD. HE QUOTES
(HUMOUROUSLY) THAT SARASWATI IS THE GODDESS OF
KNOWLEDGE AND ALL THE LANGUAGES HAVE EMERGED FROM
HER SO IS ENGLISH. THUS ENGLISH BELONGS TO US AS MUCH AS
IT BELONGS TO ANYONE ELSE.

ROLE OF TRADE AND COMMERCE

ALSO ACTED AS A GLUE B/W PEOPLE OF
DIFFERENT REGIONS
PUBLIC SECTOR IN EARLY YEARS HELPED TO
FORGE THE BONDS
IN EARLY YEARS STEEL PLANTS LIKE BHILAI
GAVE EMPLOYMENT TO PEOPLE FROM ALL
CORNERS OF INDIA AND GAVE RISE TO
FIRST COSMOPOLITAN CULTURE IN INDIA.
MIGRATION OF PEOPLE FOR EMPLOYEMNT
ALSO HEPLED PEOPLE TO CONCIEVE THEY
ARE THE PART OF SAME NATION

INDIA AND US:IDEA OF

DEMOCRACY