Is like saying that the French monarchy offered a nice feudal society, but that the people preferred to cut their heads off.

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So much for the myth, fostered by the communists and accepted by most people today, that the communists took over from a feudal society.

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"We are a feudal society, " said Vaibhav Krishna, a senior police official investigating another alleged rape in Uttar Pradesh and the police handling of that case.

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If there is a lesson for the future of Islamic finance from medieval Christian finance, it is that the roots of its decline lay in societal changes to the fragmented, feudal society of Europe of its time.

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Generalizations do not apply to everyone, but thoughtful Indians accept that northern society is more feudal and caste-based, and less secure about its identity, while southerners are more liberal and entrepreneurial, and draw strength from their many deeply rooted traditions.

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They demand land and jobs for the poor, and ultimately want to establish a "communist society" by overthrowing India's "semi-colonial, semi-feudal" form of rule.

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