what is the difference between India and China
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Well, the Biggest difference between China & India is The Governance & Political System… China is ruled by Communism while India is administered by Democracy.
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The Modern Spirit of Asia is a book about India and China and the ways in which they have been transformed by Western imperial modernity. In my understanding, the onset of modernity is located in the nineteenth century and is characterized politically by the emergence of the nation-state, economically by industrialization, and ideologically by an emphasis on progress and liberation; “imperial modernity” is the formation of modernity under conditions of imperialism. This book is an essay in comparative historical sociology, informed by anthropological theory. Comparative historical sociology of culture is a field that was founded by Max Weber and practiced by his followers, of whom the late Robert Bellah and the late S.N. Eisenstadt are among the best known. It has been connected to interpretive anthropological theory and to insights gained in ethnography, especially in the work of Clifford Geertz.
The increase of sophisticated specialist historical work and the emphasis on economics and politics in comparative work has made it hard to pursue this line of interpretive analysis. Our knowledge of the complexities and the modern transformations of Chinese and Indian societies has increased greatly since Weber wrote his studies. This makes it difficult to do a comparative project, but I am convinced that, in an era of increasing specialization, it is important to do comparative work if it succeeds in highlighting issues that are neglected or ignored because of the specialist’s focus on a singular national society. The nation-form itself is a global form that the state takes during the nineteenth century and cannot be understood as the product of one particular society. It is the dominant societal form today, and India and China have been gradually developed into nation-states. That is why one can compare India and China as nation-states, although these societies are, internally, immensely differentiated, and the particular nation-form they have taken is historically contingent.
While India and China are taking a globally available form that is characteristic of modernity, they follow quite different pathways, and their differences can be highlighted and understood through comparison. China’s and India’s nation-forms are comparable because they are both based on huge societies with deep cultural histories, which have united large numbers of people over vast territories and long periods of time. Both have taken the nation-form in interaction with Western imperialism. The comparative analysis that is introduced here takes the nation-form not as something natural or already preconditioned by deep civilizational or ethnic histories, but as something historically contingent and fragmented. By focusing on the comparative analysis of the different pathways of two nation-states in a global (imperial) context, the argument goes beyond methodological nationalism.