Tuesday, May 22, 2007

3.Introduction:looking for sources of inspiration.

I have been pondering and my mind is afresh with thoughts of a situation that would bring change for good in this place....freshly having completed graduation,that too in history with a side basic subject of pol science leaves me very inspired with the Japanese subject..studying the brief history of industrialization and modernization of any country...i find that in the majority of the cases,outside help was sought and it stays the major initial pathway...for the rest of the cases,examples are few...if we take for example England's industrialization,it grew mostly due to its overseas colonial markets...but if we are to take modernization in the sense of spiritual and political progress and not merely economical..then we can take the example of France where the french revolution ended feudalism and ushered in a new era.....and ushered in ideas like liberty,equality etc. which is recognised today as a basic right everywhere......
But Manipur being a place inhabited by mongoloid people has other examples with whom they can relate more other than either England or france..i.e. of japan.........as i mentioned above that most modernization came with outside support,japan also took assistance.If you have studied their history,you will know that japan initially followed a policy of seclusion from the outside world.....but later they realized that it needs to be changed in the interest of progress.....Manipur too cant develop all by itself..it needs help......to see all this in perspective,lets delve a bit into japans history.............

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