Question

Try to find out what Marx and Weber wrote about India.

Answer 1

Marx referred to villages as the little communities of India.

Explanation:

• India was a self-sufficient society.
• It had its own Institutions and believes which controls human behavior. He was against British rule in Indian society.
• Whereas Weber described Indian society as orthodox and suppressed.
• He stated that Indian societies are under the barriers of the caste system.
• India needs rational thinking which is opposed by the caste system.
• He believed the basic hurdles in the economic development of the country were religion and the caste system.