Question

3 Compare Ashoka's reforms with government reforms in the twentieth century.​

Answer 1

Answer:

Could as well be another new year in the 20th. One hundred years ago, India was a picture of stagnancy; imperial power was reigning supreme, and the economic circumstances of the Indian people, having reached a nadir, remained unaltered between the decades.

Agriculture, the principal economic activity, was responsible for as much as 80 per cent of national output; 90 per cent of the working population depended on it. In the event of good rainfall, farm output would rise and the overall economic situation would look up marginally. But bad years of monsoon alternated fairly regularly with good ones, rendering millions of countrymen into helpless victims of soothsayers, unsure of their future.

All this led to the coinage of the expression: the Indian economy is a gamble on the monsoon. It could hardly be otherwise, for British non-enterprise and detachment ensured that few irrigation works were available to augment the supply of water for purposes of cultivation in most parts of the country beyond what the rain gods would offer. Agriculture was the nation's lifeline; if the monsoon failed, the lifeline collapsed.

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