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тАЬIn the history of nation-building, only the Soviet experiment bears comparison with the Indian. There too, a sense of unity had to be forged between many diverse ethnic groups, religious, linguistic communities and social classes. The scale-geographic as well as demographic was comparably massive. The raw material the state had to work with was equally unpropitious: a people divided by faith and driven by debt and disease.тАЭтАФRamachandra Guha
- Last the commonalities that the author mentions between India and the Soviet Union and give one example for each of these from India.
- The author does not talk about the dissimilarities between the two experiments. Can you mention two dissimilarities?
- In retrospect which of these two experiments worked better and why?
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a. Commonalities between India and the Soviet Union:
- Both nations shaped the nation on a linguistic basis.
- To promote welfare motives, economic and technological developments took place in India also.
- States were divided on the grounds of geographical boundary and strength of populations also in both the nations.
b. Dissimilarities:
- The Soviet Union was divided into 15 independent republics/countries to be disintegrated.
- India maintained its unity and integrity even among the diversified nature of states and peoples without any more division.
c. The Indian experiment worked better to promote linguistic and cultural plurality without affecting unity and integrity of the nation though India adopted some diplomatic measures to make country united.