India, China and Northern Frontiers
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...Contrary tendencies have of course been at work. But to mistake these unsuccessful amendments for the main proposition would be grievous error. The recent most error has been to rave about the resurgence and unity of the nation in the face of China’s invasion. Dirty people have even lauded the Chinese invasion for this blessing. India’s big men are so uncertain of themselves and their country that they must see a silver lining in every cloud. Actually, the silver lining has itself been an optical illusion. The resurgence and unity were frothy and restricted to urban areas and middle classes. The acid test is of course harder. Has this Chinese tragedy made any difference to habits of thought and behaviour of thousands of groups and castes that are supposed to form the Indian people? The Indian people does not yet exist, that is as a viable people capable of defending its statehood. Thousands of groups and castes exist, each willing for its own interest to deceive state permanently and desert it occasionally. Unless a rapid course of dissolution of these groups is put through, India cannot prosper. Freedom in the narrow sense is of course not imperilled. If the Chinese had kept on advancing into India, the present government would have been replaced by one of the nationalist or communist resolve. One would have stopped the Chinese advance by force, including proxy-force, and the other by consent. Physical enslavement of peoples seems no longer to be possible. What is possible, and in the case of the Indian people probable, is spiritual liberation or dirt and economic misery.
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