Try to find out what Marx and Weber wrote about India.

The ideas of Marx about India –


• He referred villages as the little communities of India.


• India is a self sufficient go and has no contact with outside world.


• It had its own Institutions and believes which controls the human behaviour.


• He was against the British rule in Indian society.


The ideas of Weber about India –


• He described Indian society as orthodox and suppressed.


• He stated that the Indian societies under the barriers of the caste system.


• India needs rational thinking with is opposed by the caste system.


• The basic hurdles in the economic development of the country are the religion and the caste system.


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