Where Did India Go Wrong?

We first went wrong with our Economics.

Instead of a free economy based on free exchanges, we opted for a “command economy”.

Instead of rulers who are supposed to get the bad guys and command the police, we got rulers who commanded the businessmen and let the police system rot.

They did not know what to command!

This wrong-headed Economics bequeathed to us a wrong-headed Political Science: instead of “liberal democracy” we got “socialist democracy”, which is no democracy at all.

(Socialist East Germany was also “democratic”.)

With both the Economics and the Political Science wrong, our Public Administration naturally went to pieces. The erstwhile “steel frame” of our Weberian-Platonic bureaucracy neglected its basic duties and became a “spending bureaucracy” hand-in-glove with corrupt socialist politicians.

Where the Economics, Political Science and Public Administration are totally wrong, what will happen to Law? Obviously it will become an instrument of coercion, with “legislation” being used as a means of issuing centralized commands.

We confused “legislation” with Law.

This is how we got all the “social sciences” wrong.

And there is no easy cure to this mess.