Who according to Pearl S. Buck is blame for India's poverty and backwardness?
Ans. Pearl S. Buck came to India in the period just before and after India's
independence. In that period India was what the British rulers had made her. She
found India in a pitiable condition. The condition of the villages in particular
was very diplorable. People suffered from poverty and starvation. The fertile
land stretching from Bombay to Madras was dry and without crops due to lack
of irrigation facilities. What to say of artesian wells there were not even shallow
wells. The people themselves could have done something about it. But centuries
of colonialism had taken all strength and vitality out of them. They were sunk in
sloth and idleness. They were full of excuses for not working and remaining
helpless, spectators all the time. They blamed the Britishers for all the ills of
their society. They thought that their British rulers had taken allthe responsibilities
to feed and clothe them. It they suffered and died of hunger and disease it was the
fault of the foreign government. The people in themselves were not responsible
for it. Such behaviour of the people showed that the colonialism ofcenturies had
made them lose their heart and their spirit. So ultimately the British imperialists
were responsible for this all-round degradation and backwardness of India and
her people.
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