I think the presence of caste in India, how the villages are geographically structured on caste lines, is very different from China. The presence of an egalitarian culture is striking in a Chinese village.
As an undergraduate, I had an opportunity to go on a number of archeological digs. So I had experience excavating, digging up remains of ancient Indian villages in the Midwest and in the Southwest.
There is no better way of industrializing the villages of India than the spinning wheel.
If there ever is to be a republic of every village in India, then I claim verity for my picture in which the last is equal to the first or, in other words, no one is to be the first and none the last.
Life in a Chinese village is much more organised because the Chinese Communist Party has a presence even in the remotest Chinese village - a presence of the kind that no governmental or non-governmental organisation has in Indian villages.
The collectors of revenue and the policeman are the only symbols by which millions in India's villages know British rule.
One important thing I recall about India was that it was quiet. It was never noisy in the way that life was noisy in London.
India's way is not Europe's. India is not Calcutta and Bombay. India lives in her seven hundred thousand villages.
