Ep 234: Kanti Bajpai on India vs China
The Seen and the Unseen - hosted by Amit Varma
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The Relationship Between China and India
The opium trade had a very bad effect in ar amongst a segment of chinese people, you know. So that led them to a kind of negative e of india, an indian society. They wanted to figure out how such a big land mass, huge population and vibrant civilization had fallen to a handful of imperialists. And the answer they they came up with was, in a way, a pretty familiar one, one that we tell ourselves in india. The indians, they were disunited. They had been driven by and developed a psychology of being disunited by waves of invasion. But also, perhaps ar both a regard for china that was there, but also,
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