A Social Scientific Interpretation of Communist China

TLDR: Two Indian historians who visited the People's Republic of China (PRC) in Mat'ch-April )97~/ The authors are modest enough to say that their views are tentative and subject to modification as discussed by the authors.

Abstract: two Indian historians who visited the People’s Republic of China (PRC) in Mat’ch-April )97~/ The authors are modest enough to say that their views are tentative and subject to modification. There are, indeed, a number of issues that call for critical comment and amplsfication. It is simply not enough to interpret things as they have happened in the PRC merely from the viewpoint of history. It takes more than a historian to put communist China an proper perspective. For, its history is intricately bound up with political economy and Marxism. Despite the fact that the Republic of India and the PRC were born with a gap of four months between them, they have nothing in common institutionally and in social practices. To start with the proposition that ’China is the only country which is engaged in the kind of experiment as India is engaged in’ is not only misleading but historically inaccurate. The Republic of India is not known to have engaged herself in ’socialist reconstruction’ and experimenting with educational reforms as the PRC has done. Nor