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Civil war. Your were a British colony then, you wouldn't know what is a civil war. China, the country was alway there, Mao simply won the civil war.
British left 562 princely states independent after their suzerainty expired, our great leader Sardar Patel united them into India. The nationalism was so strong that those states preferred to sign accession paper.
While in case of China, Chinese nationalism failed to unite China and it was only under Iron fist of Mao Zedong that China was united under one government.
A country like China was too poor and weak for democracy to take place. There were too much infighting. So a strong leader had to unite China.
India, on the other hand, had other challenges. There was not a single language. The British language unified India. India had various governments, but British with its parliamentary style of government unified India. So a united India adopted this style of government since it was already in place.
As you can see, British colonialism gifted India a language and a government to unite India. China went through warlord period and Japanese invasion and need a strong yet brutal leader to unite China. So both India Union and PRC come about because both countries had different experiences.
I won't go as far as prehistoric. But more like high middle ages of Europe.
India was not rich and we too had many problems hundreds of princely states many craving about becoming independent still nothing happened when western pundits were making lots of negative claims.
The real reason is Chinese even with a common language failed to unite under a single government with their failed democracy. So, certainly your kind can't be an inspiration for any country.
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