What are the main reasons why India has poverty, large amount of orphans, pollution and lots of slums?
India suffers the problems that you’ve outlined for various reasons. First, India was left out of the two great economic revolutions that transformed the modern world: Capitalism and Communism. Western Europe began to change to the capitalist model with the occurrence of the Industrial Revolution about the middle of the eighteenth century. Russia (and ultimately the USSR) began its process of moving toward Socialism with the Bolshevik and then Communist revolutions of the early twentieth centuries. So, the countries of Western Europe became known as First World Countries, and the socialist nations became the Second World Countries. Most of the rest of the world, including Asia, Africa, and South America, therefore, became the Third World Countries. Second, the caste system has caused India to waste potential resources. Because the lower castes (including the harijans — or untouchables) grew faster than the upper castes, and because their caste limited their participation in society, t
