It is well beyond anyone's doubt that a society is a confluence of various factors. Technological achievements and social development are the most important factors that determine the status of a society. Technological achievement is not merely about the introduction of new machines and new technologies. It is all about how human beings can liberate their creative energies. If we are not able to replace human labour with machine in every field of activity we cannot claim ourselves to be a technologically advanced society.
The second most important factor that determines the status of a society is its social development. The structural pattern of the society as well as the belief systems of the people show the extent of social development in a society.
When we consider these factors we can understand that China is 100 years ahead of India and Europe is 300 years ahead of India. This interesting but shocking revelation is made in "What after Modi Sarkar?" - the book. The book claims that what China achieved in the year 1912 has not been achieved by India even to this day. The year 1912 marked the end of the empire and the establishment of the republic in China. But internally the Republic marked a great social change in the history of China. The development in 1912 dealt a heavy blow on the feudal social structure of China. Before 1912 China had practised a kind of caste system in which the ruling Manju race kept them away from the rest of the society. But in the year 1912 China ended the feudal marriage restrictions and began the process of establishing an inclusive society. In this regard India has not surpassed China in what the latter had achieved in the year 1912. India with its stinking caste system is more than 100 years behind China in its social development.
Further, Communism was not mere an ideological system for China. For China Communism was a practical belief that would put an end to the old beliefs that sustained the old society. When India used the tantrum of secularism to persist with the old beliefs China at once struck at the roots of the old beliefs. India miserably failed to liberate the people from the sorcery of the priesthood which China had achieved with her communist advancement.
The whole of Europe achieved these developements much before. What came to be known as reformation and separation of the church from the state achieved a great social revolution in Europe. India is still struggling with its feudal social structure as well as the archaic belief systems in spite of the presence of all the modern technological devices. If technology is not used as an instrument of social advancement it cannot bring boons to any society. Excerpts from the book follow.
"There are many historical examples of the kind of repairing of torn up villages and cities about which we have understood above. There were many powerful Buddhist monasteries in China during the period of the rise of Communism under the leadership of Mao. The monasteries owned huge properties [like the temple lands or wakf properties or the church lands in India] and they, by their tactics of indoctrination by priesthood, maintained an overwhelming control over the lives of the people around them [just as the pandits, the mullahs and the priests in India do]. The Buddhist monasteries and their priesthood in China caused serious troubles on the way of building a modern state in China, exactly the way the likes of All India Muslim Personal Law Board Wakf Board, Church institutions, RSS, VHP and the temple priesthood are doing in India. As an ordinary solution to this extraordinary problem, the communists under Mao destroyed the monasteries and confiscated their properties. Today, China is far ahead of India in its human development and technological advancement, because it was able to liberate its people from intellectual slavery sustained by priestly indoctrination."
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