Political Differences Between West And West

• Political Control by the west led to systemic difference between east and west, a conscious process of the creation of an architectonic of international capitalism by the colonial powers and trade networks throughout their settler colonies. Economic domination and political domination go hand in hand. One builds on the other, the merchants and the ruling class in collusion. Mere increase in quantity of economic goods and their variety doesn’t tell the full story, there has to be an analysis of deeper economic forces at play. These were directed towards an unbalanced growth between east and west. The centre of ownership over means of production lay in the west. Trade flows were directed by the west, there was greater individualism and agency
Even liberals like Dickens and Doyle myopic on Asia, Kipling….genuine liberals like Shaw and Wells, it is their like who played a role in the peaceful transfer of power. The far more informal and even handed Indian traders, in Gujarat and South Africa, but always marginalized, growth of Indian industry and trade unions. The fluctuating irrigation policies…….the deep penetration of the Indian economy by the British never replicated in China, but an urban coastal economy grew, the core and periphery setup. The one dimensional feeder economy of the Malay states and Dutch states, there was a more comprehensive partnership in India between British and Indians. The air of ad hoc adventurism a la Drake and the Elizabethan days never perhaps completely left. Nelson too showed this spirit, the naval element. Jai Singh, Tipu Sultan, Ranjit Singh, all showed shoots of development but this never took off, the heavy weight of the Zamindars and merchants and princes allied with British political power slowed and stagnated Indian growth. Even this much class development was lacking in East
The use of baubles……the colonialist shadow British economy in India, the planters, the civil servants, the soldiers and missionaries…….a servant culture grew up among Indian subalterns, law and order became external and threatening. Commodity exchange increased but the trade flow, banking and currency systems were exploitative…..Indian and Asian collusion with this exploitation. The profits of Indian manufacture creamed off by western capital, through taxes not least. Cotton trade, fabrics and luxury trade grew, as did tea, but tea plantations and indigo farms were owned by the westerners, the luxury trade brought large profits to the westerners. The crusader spirit, even in economic terms. A conscious capitalism, that the Turks in Europe or the Arab traders never displayed, a unique meshing of the capital and political power, of the bourgeoisie and capitalist, that was a unique European phenomenon, together with democracy. The thinkers, the merchants, the adventurers, the courts and the missionaries, all created this Europe as did the generals and scientists, a unique spectacle of social agency and structure in a two