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Two Passages to Modernity

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Asia’s Giants

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Gandhi wrote the words above in 1909, at a time when he was struggling with the question of India’s modernization and how to achieve it. (Gandhi [1909] 1956, 103) Nearly a century later, the words have a deep resonance. Despite decades of calls by outsiders for a more coercive, planned, even revolutionary approach to political and economic development, India has remained steady indeed. Gandhi’s hope lay in the idea that repression and violence were not necessary steps on the road to modernity, as Moore and others claimed (Moore [1966] 1993, 410). Today, this hope is being realized as India’s constitutional democracy deepens and its poverty rates fall (from 37 percent in 1987 to somewhere between 15 percent and 28 percent by 2002) (Deaton and Kozel 2005).

A strong element of coercion remains necessary if a change is to be made [in India].

—Barrington Moore, Jr.

Many thrust their advice upon India, and she remains steady. This is her beauty. It is the sheet-anchor of our hope.

—Gandhi

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Gilley, B. (2005). Two Passages to Modernity. In: Friedman, E., Gilley, B. (eds) Asia’s Giants. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781403978295_3

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