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The women characters are strong individuals, especially those who come from the lower classes and are not modernised.In the novel we see the characters attempting to bridge two different worlds through their actions: they take to new agricultural technology, modernise trading practices, change the use of Indian languages, making them capable of transmitting both Western sciences and Indian wisdom.Unable to modernise and compete with the US, Germany and Japan, the economy of Britain crumbled after the war.Considering the importance of agriculture in India, the Government of India made concerted efforts to modernise agriculture.They were supported in the empire by nationalists (in Poland for instance) and in Muslim-dominated areas by jadidists who wanted modernised Islam to lead their societies.These small-sized peasant farms could not be modernised.