Neo-Imperialism
Since 1947, the construction of 4,300 large dams has displaced more than 4.4 million people across India. All these people belong to poor rural areas. In the majority of these cases, rehabilitation process of these displaced people was a failure. We do not experience power cuts in metro cities like Delhi, Mumbai or Bengaluru. While these are common to many villages of Bihar, Jharkhand, and Orissa. Imperialism in layman's terms means depriving a section of the population the resources and giving it to remaining few for their imperial needs. Until the mid of the twentieth century, a major part of Asia and Africa was ruled by European powers for their imperial needs. After the end of world war, India became politically independent but economic and social conditions of rural India are still in trouble. Current Model of Development Out of the 1.3 billion population of India, more than one billion live in rural areas. Merely 300 million people live in urb...