The 5 stages of entrepreneurship

India After Independence

The Independence from the Britishers left us with two countries India
and Pakistan. Pakistan was further divided into East Pakistan and West
Pakistan which later on led to the formation of Bangladesh. Let’s find
out more about India After Independence.
Problems Faced After Independence
15th August 1947 marked the end of colonial rule in India and the
country found itself standing on the threshold of a new era wherein the
task was to build a strong nation. While India found itself independent
from the British, it was still to find independence from social, economic
and political problems that had started to become a rock in the way of
its growth. The problems that India faced right after independence can
be divided into three phases:

 Phase 1: 1947-1967
 Phase 2: 1967-1977
 Phase3: 1977-1984.

Phase 1 ( 1947- 1967)

India primarily these issues during this phase:

 The division of assets: Tensions stretched to a breaking point with

Pakistan over the division of assets. According to the Indo- Pakistan
financial settlement of 1947 India had to pay rupees 55 crores as the
latter’s share of the assets.
 The Refugee Problem: The partition of India gave way to the
refugee problem. By mid-1948 about 5.5 million non-Muslims had
moved into India and a very large number of Muslims had left India
for Pakistan. According to the Indian government, the non-Muslims
left behind property worth 500 crores in west Pakistan whereas the
Muslim losses in India are put to 100 crores.
 Origin of the Kashmir Problem: The Maharaja Hari Singh was a
Hindu while 75% of the population was that of Muslims. Kashmir
was strategically important for both India and Pakistan, however,
the famous movement lead by Sheik Abdullah waned integration
with India. The Maharaja, on the other hand, feared democracy in
India and communalism in Pakistan, thus hoping to stay
independent.
 Foundation of the Indian Democracy: The first general elections in
India which were held in 1952 was a landmark event in the history of
the state which marked the establishment of the Indian democracy.
It was held over a period of 4 months from October 1951 to
February 1952. Congress got more than 70% of the votes polled.
 Linguistic Reorganization: Boundaries of the British Indian
provinces had been drawn and redrawn in a haphazard manner
without any thought to cultural and linguistic cohesion. Most
provinces were multilingual and multicultural and after
independence, many former princely states were absorbed into
them. There was a demand for linguistically homogeneous
provinces.
 The Indus Water Dispute: The dispute started in 1960. The dispute
arose because Indus and its tributaries flow through both India and
Pakistan. West Pakistan and West India were both dependent on
Indus and its tributaries for water, power supply, and irrigation.
These rivers rise in India and the canal system is also in India.
Partition cut through a complex and unified system of canals.
Phase 2 ( 1967-1977)
The problems that India faced after independence in this phase were as
follows:

The Elections of 1967

In 1967 elections were held in February. This time the popularity of the
Indian National Congress had declined considerably although the INC
did win for the fourth time. The number of seats won was less. The
reason behind the dismissal show of the Congress was the death of two
prominent leaders, Jawaharlal Nehru, and Lal Bahadur Shastri. There
were also internal problems in the party. The most important feature of
the elections of 1967 was the coming together of the opposition parties.

Naxal Movement
The Naxalite Movement was a revolutionary movement that was started
by the Naxalbari in Bengal another group of Maoist themed activities in
Andra Pradesh the AndraNaxalitess were mainly active in two regions
Telangana and Srikakulam bordering Odisha in both the regions the
area of dispute was land and forest.

The main victims were the tribals and the peasants. The movement was
violent. In Srikakulam, the struggle was led by a school teacher. He led
the tribals in a series of labour strikes, seized grains from the rich
farmers and redistributed it to the needy. In Telangana, the struggle was
led by a veteran of the communist movement. The Naxalites formed a
new party called the – CPI  Maonist.
JP Movement
From 1973 there was a sharp recession, growing unemployment,
rampant inflation and scarcity of basic food. The oil crisis of the mid
70’s had also contributed to the crisis and all of these developments
together led to riots and large-scale unrest and strikes and erosion of
support for the Congress from the poor and the middle class.

The students asked Jay Prakash Narayan, an elderly man who was in
political retirement, to take over the leadership of the movement. JP, as
he was popularly known as he agreed to take on the leadership of the
movement, provided it was non-violent and not restricted to Bihar.

He had made a public criticism of the central government. His entry

gave the movement a great morale boost. It came to be known as the JP
movement. He asked students to boycott their classes and the people to
raise their consciousness against the corruption of the government. The
result was constant clashes between the students and the police.

On 5th June 1974, at a mammoth meeting in Patna, he called for “total

revolution” against the government. He called for the
state legislatures to resign, for the assembly to be dissolved. JP called
for the agitators to paralyze the government. He wanted to set up a
parallel “People’s Government”.

Emergency
The government responded to the JP Movement by declaring National
Emergency which was the greatest threat to India’s democratic
foundation. From 1973 there was a sharp decline in the economic
situation, a combination of growing unemployment, rampant inflation,
and scarcity of basic food and essential commodities created a serious
crisis.
stage One: Drive
What most people lack, and the reason we’re divided as a society
between go getters and settlers, is drive.

When you are driven, you suddenly have time.

Why? Because you somehow make that time.

When you are driven, you suddenly can .

Why? Because you jump in.

When you are driven, you suddenly find that you’re doing it.

Why? Because you actually do it.

DO IT!

However, drive is like a drug, one we get used to, and we require

more and more of it each day, just to make the initial growth into
happening.

The farther up that false growth curve you go, the more drive you
require to keep climbing the steep way ahead. The minute you
slow down, you feel like you’re missing out, like your time is
passing, like you are wasting your moment, like you fall back.

Unfortunately, at any point in time, for any person on Earth, drive

will dry out. It’s the effect of the more you know the less you
know.
As the fast initial progress reaches the plateau phase, people
quit because they basically don’t believe there is a top to that
mountain. So that is wave one quitters.

Quitters are awesome because at least they started.

Stage Two: Persistence

From the driven starters, some insist that there must be a top of
the mountain they climb, and they start to hustle.

They run out of drive, but somehow find inside them the other
rarest of things among human personalities: persistence.
Persistence is painful because it is a sobering
up process from the high drive caused.

The persistent ones keep plowing at it, with no drive in their veins,
but a bitter combination of pride and ambition, sweetened only by
vague hope.

The persistent people are awesome because they suffer those last
miles.
Stage Three: Quitting
Right after persistence wears out, one finds itself at the top!

But behold, no breathtaking scenery, no peak to stick your flag

into, no selfie to take from the top of the world. Not even above the
clouds. Just an endless field of boredom stretching on and on into
the horizon.

This is the walk of quitting. It is like a walk of shame, only that you
throw tomatoes at yourself:

“What was I thinking?”

The walk of quitting is so long and boring, that most people simply
stop there and camp out for the rest of their lives. Then they come
up with personal development theories that teach success is not
everything in life. Bullshit.

Those who keep going, at some point, fall into the dip.

The dip is the final test of the quit zone.

The dip is when the boredom of nothing happening pushes you

over the cliff with bad news, when the cloud fails your user
database, when your partner quits, when your market gets a
behemoth player, when it’s not enough that no weight went away
for four months in a row, now you got gastritis and must eat more
often.
Those who stand the quitting zone are so awesome for having
strength of character.

Stage Four: Vision

The quitting zone is followed by the vision zone, when the true
growth starts.

The problem is that the vision zone comes right after the dip.

People are beat up, tired, bored, with zero faith, and suddenly they
must climb again. Only the few talented, free and/or lucky,
have the vision of what is happening.

Most will see the climb after the dip as another dip, only some see
it as the inflection point.

They know they are back on the way up.

Only those, therefore, have the vision, which in fact they had from
the very beginning, which in fact to them was their drive in the
first place, instead of desire or curiosity.

You could see as a fine observer right at the beginning who has
vision powered drive and who simply burns calories and ideas
(and dollars). That’s what makes a good early investor.
People with vision are awesome because they are the ones who
prove that “anything is possible”.

Stage Five: Mission

The mission zone is when those who had the vision of their growth
understand the unique opportunity to actually put meaning into
the world.

A true mission has exponential potential.

Those who find their mission are the rare people that take it upon
themselves to change something, or make something last.

They become personally invested, not in short term objectives or

shallow whims, but large, long term, deep and meaningful
promises, which they make, openly or not, to the world itself.

Most people stop at having vision.

Vision and growth bring a lot of comfort. Money flows, wealth

builds, success is present, there is very little incentive to assume a
mission. A mission can take a serious hit at the “winning” that
vision brings.

Missions are the things which bring sudden deaths to promising

mavericks, who fall from the sky, like shot down ducks.
List leader after 1947

 Visakhapatnam Steel Plant

 Vicco Group
 Vedanta Limited
 Travancore Cochin Chemicals
 Torrent Group
 ATLAS CYCLES
 HERO CYCLES