i mean, the India of today is very much a product of the west running a damage control program on "unaligned" Asia after their White Revolution (Russia) and KMT (China) puppets failed to stop the march of history towards liberation. it was generally accepted that if India tilted socialist, capitalism would be on its heels before any of us were even born.

this book, by a non-leftist, very much tells the story of western capital going all in to try to "develop" India, post-independence, to bring it back into the western fold. of course, capital formations make for the absolute worst international development partners, so the hollowing out of india's agricultural communities and resources to make raw materials for disposable garbage went into overdrive... while china went in a completely novel direction using socialist political economy to blend modern science and traditional ecological wisdom to grow food for humans.

the "high tech" (aka "high IP") so-called green revolution has been an abject failure and its socioecological catastrophe will be felt for generations. the red revolution? well, looks like they're going to run the table. you pick just about any vegetable eaten globally and china is the #1 producer. not only that, they typically produce more yield per unit area than anyone other nation. not only that, they typically produce more per year than the #2-#10 producers, combined. even though they have maybe 20% of the "prime ag land" the US does, and they've been farming the hell out of it for 2000+ years.