Analysis of India in Comparative Politics
Perhaps the most important issue to be addressed after the publication of this book is the dangerous climate that has risen in India. The debates over Kashmir, a small piece of territory both India and neighboring country Pakistan have been claiming since the 1940s, has heated up. The situation has grown to a point where the two nuclear powers have come the closest they have ever been to war, while the world holds its breath.
When Great Britain gave India its independence in 1947, the subcontinent was split into Pakistan and India. Jammu and Kashmir (the area’s official name) was declared sovereign at first, but was eventually split between to two diverse countries. Since 1999, an increase in attacks in the Kashmir region by such methods as tanks and suicide bombers increased. This is has pleased neither India nor Pakistan, and in May 2002, the world watched as foreign peacemaking attempts were made to avoid nuclear war, the closest call since the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962. If war had happened, CNN estimated that an initial nuclear blast would kill as many as 12 million people, and Pakistan’s targets in India would have been India’s capital New Delhi and its largest city Bombay. 1
Though the fighting between India and Pakistan for Kashmir is as old as the countries’ independences, the renewed energy in fighting could prove devastating in the end. The situation has increased international participation. Pakistan President General Pervez Musharraf and India Prime Minister Biharia Vajpayee have been forced by international pressures to hold talks in the hopes of bringing peace to the nations.
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The Indian Express. Guatam Bhatia. “The city against itself.” July 1, 2002.
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The Milli Gazette. Rizwan Ullah. “Two-party system.” October 15, 2000. http://www.milligazette.com/Archives/15-10-2000/Art5.htm
“The Success of India’s Democracy.” Ed. Atul Kohli. Cambridge University Press. 2001. Pages 1-3.
As I have read the primary sources, it became clear to me that African Americans and Indians wants to be treated equally and fairly. As I read "An Indian's View of Indian Affairs" by Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce, the main thing that caught my attention was "Treat all men alike. Give them the same laws." This caught my attention because he clearly talked about the way he was tired of white men having all of the authority and the chiefs who would always talk about equality or fairness, but fails to show it with their actions. Also, he went on to say that everyone should be treated as one because essentially everyone is one and was born the same way. Basically, his view was an argument to state that it's not right to treat one person better or
... others around them. Their stark differences of order and violence ended up changing hearts and destroying lives. All of the boys realize by the end of Lord of the Flies that they would never be the same now that their innocence is gone and they believe that evil is in every man’s heart. Ralph’s vulnerability appears again for the first time in a long time when he “wept for the end of innocence, the darkness of man’s heart, and the fall through the air of the true, wise friend called Piggy” (182). However, he will never be the same after this terrifying and life-changing experience. In the end, the battle between civilization and savagery never has a victor. The conflict between civilization and savagery is unending; the presence of savagery will always conceal itself within all humans even with civilization at its highest point.
Pastan, Linda. "Ethics." Literature: An Introduction to Reading and Writing. 4th ed. Ed. Edgar V. Roberts and Henry E. Jacobs. Upper Saddle River: Prentice, 1995. 855.
Kant, Immanuel. "The Foundations of Ethics." Moral Philosophy: a Reader. Ed. Louis P. Pojman. Indianapolis, IN: Hackett Company, 1993. 194-213.
Around the year 1415, the Hundred Years War had reached its most crucial point. On April 29th, the French began their plan; while the French distracted the troops
Schroeder, Mark (2007) "The Humean Theory of Reasons", Oxford Studies in Metaethics 2, Oxford, pp. 195-219.
Ban animal cruelty! Give aid to the poor! Save the rainforests! Obey the law! As a human race we must strive to fulfill these commands, for they are our moral duties and obligations. Our obligation to morality sometimes leads to a dilemma. What happens when a law contradicts the morally right thing to do? Would it be moral to act illegally by breaking the law? No matter how drastic the measure, we are still required to act morally--even if one must break the law to do so. But why is it so important to be moral that one could justify something as serious as breaking the law?
Vaughn, Lewis. Contemporary Moral Arguments: Readings in Ethical Issues. Second ed. New York: Oxford UP, 2013. Print.
Manuel Velasquez, D. M. (1988). A framework for thinking ethically. Issues in Ethics, V. 1, N. 2.
Without authority and proper leadership, humans will wander off from the morals that they thought they had, and plummet straight into savagery. In the book, Lord of the Flies by William Golding, a group of young boys between the ages of six to twelve get stranded on a deserted island. The boys try to build a functioning society in order to get rescued, but eventually, conflict occurs and the boys behave savagely, killing one another until they are rescued at the end. Golding’s view on humanity is that humans will naturally descend into savagery without society, rules, and authority. Jack and Roger’s nature prove Golding’s view as they are the main characters that descend into savagery and act sadistically. Although there are characters, like Ralph, who try to keep things on the island in order, they ultimately fail because savagery prevails.
The hundred years’ war was an ongoing war between England and France. This war was an extremely important period for both world powers. This war went both ways and was never solved by a peace treaty, at one point there was a treaty but it was broken by a king of England. This war lasted from 1337 to 1453, The origins of this war were that Aquitaine belonged to England and at the same time remained a fief for the French, meaning it was still under the French kingdom. And the English desired to have independent possession of Aquitaine. And so, the kings of England wanted to claim the crown of France. Compared to the English army the French kings owned an abundant amount of wealth and was a dangerous world power at the
The Prince of Kashmir chose India but Pakistan invaded the province soon after and have occupied part of Kashmir since then. Controversy still surrounds the province today because naturally, Muslims want to control it. While many Muslims relocated to Pakistan and the Hindus to India, half of the Muslim population was left in India and their relations did not improve after being partially separated.
Overall India’s recent political environment has been largely unstable due to international events & continued tension with Pakistan.
BOSE, Sugata and JALAL Ayesha. Modern South Asia: history, culture, political economy. London, Routledge, 2011
Comparative politics is an important aspect of political science in that instead of studying how this country functions, it studies why other countries around the world are the way they are. There must be some medium for finding the differences and similarities between one county and another in order discover what can effect such aspects as economic strength, military strength, and the structure of the regime in power. One reason to compare countries is to help ourselves by allowing us to learn about other countries while escaping the ethnocentric fallacy many of us have. The Unites States may have a good government but is not necessarily a perfect government; certain countries may have aspects of their own government that we could learn from and perhaps improve upon our own system. Another reason to compare countries is to understand how countries evolve, discover patterns, and why they evolve in the way they do. Another very important reason to study comparative politics is to better understand how certain regimes work for purposes of international relations and foreign policy. In order to create policy regarding other countries and in order to give aid to these countries we must know how these countries function so that we can work with the countries instead of blindly trying to change them in a way that we seem fit. This is especially important in the modern age with the evolution of a global cooperation between many countries and the fact that the United States has become the watchdog, big brother, and teacher for many of the less developed countries of the world.