Do you know him? I read his EIC history and always wonder, what political beliefs keep him secure in his skin? (for an Indian
Yep, some of that captured here:https://devayasna.wordpress.com/2016/09/03/conversations-a-future-that-could-have-been/ …
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why does the comparison always run toward Meiji, as opposed to Ottoman, Qajar, Khedival Egypt, or the Qing ?
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Oh, just bcz he mentioned Japan. Of those, Persia likely poorer (but more culturally united)..and
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..neither Egypt nor Qing made it, even tho A was early starter, B had great civilization, depth..
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actually Egypt had the earliest attempt at state-led industrialisation outside the Westhttps://twitter.com/pseudoerasmus/status/738690006932434944 …
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there are 3 major issueshttps://twitter.com/omarali50/status/832072033970319360 …
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Tokugawa Japan growing ('proto-industrial) unlike China & India both which had contact w West in declining period
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#2 -- state capacity. Japan had it for 200 years prior to Meiji restoration
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#3 -- India was less urbanised than Japan in 1800;
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