ghi âm, hoặc lưu trữ bất kỳ thông tin và hệ thống phục hồi, mà không có sự cho phép bằng văn bản từ nhà xuất bản. Yêu cầu cho phép tạo ra các bản sao của bất kỳ một phần công việc nên được gửi qua đường bưu điện: Tác giả xin cảm ơn các nhà xuất bản cho phép trích dẫn từ các nguồn được liệt kê sau đây | The Tyranny of Controls 59 Britain. British rule left it with a highly skilled and trained civil service modern factories and an excellent railroad system. None of these existed in Japan in 1867. India was technologically backward compared to the West but the differential was less than that between Japan in 1867 and the advanced countries of thatday. India s physical resources too were far superior to Japan s. About the only physical advantage Japan had was the sea which offered easy transportation and a plentiful supply offish for the rest India is nearly nine times as large as Japan and a much larger percentage of its area consists of relati velylevel andac-cessible land. Japan is mostly mountainous. It has only a narrow fringe of habitable and arable land along the seacoasts. Finally Japan was on its own. No foreign capital was invested in Japan no foreign governments or foreign foundations in capitalist countries formed consortiums to make grants or offerlow-interest loans to Japan. It had to depend on itself for capital to finance its economic development. It did have one lucky break. In the early years after the Meiji Restoration the European silk crops experienced a disastrous failure that enabled Japan to earn more foreign exchange by silk exports than she otherwise could have. Aside from that there were no important fortuitous or organized sources of capital. India fared far better. Since it achievedindependencein 1947 it has received an enormous volume of resources from the rest of the world mostly as gifts. The flow continues today. Despite the similar circumstances of Japan in 1867 and India in 1947 the outcome was vastly different. Japan dismantled its feudal structure and extended social and economic opportunity to all its citizens. The lot of the ordinary man improved rapidly even though population exploded. Japan became a power to be reckoned with on the international political scene. It did not achieve full individual human and political freedom .
