Modern India

Abstract

Imagine a person who lived, say, in the seventeenth century, somehow coming back to life today. - He would find himself in a world almost entirely different from the one he was familiar with in his own time. He. may find a few of the buildings he was familiar with still standing, some in ruins and some intact. But he would find that almost everything else had changed beyond recognition. He would find many more cities and towns than there were in his time. Not only that he would find that these cities are very different from the one he was familiar' with but that their very nature is different. Even the landscape is different because during his time, there were no factories, no metalled roads, not even the type of houses he would find now. On the roads there would be vehicles. of various types he had never even imagined before and may only on a rare occasion come across a means of transport that would resemble the one that he might have used before. The sight of an aeroplane in the sky or a train on the rails would surprise him.