Why Corruption Prevails In India?

 ‘It will cost ₹500 as a fine……’ said the Traffic cop jingling the keys of the freshly caught licenceless teenager”… Or you could just pay ₹100 rupees and skip off you know.”

Well, the most obvious reason for corruption to flourish and stay put in Indian society has many factors and the desire to get things done at the very least time and effort. Why wait in a line for hours altogether when an agent will get the same with some bribe? This also brings in a point that people with duty expect more than what they are actually paid for. Is your pay low? Ask for a raise, not a bribe. A kid has an obligatory duty to study and pass because it’s HIS future not his parents; who bribe him with promises of getting that new bicycle if he gets good grades. This at times begins at home.

Hinduism is the only religion in the world to worship a god of wealth. This is ironic because we have a tendency to strike DEALS with the deity. Not just a single god but any other will do fine too. You might have done a coconut offering for every easy paper you’ve got in your examination

Corruption and bribery have a dug deep roots in India. This can be traced back to the times of medieval times; during the Britisher’s systematic occupation of our territory. The East India Company did not win just because it had a greater army personnel or new weapons. We were always better than them. It was our moral ambiguity which hit us the hard. Guards and security personnel were easily bought with enough bribe for them to settle down for the rest of their lives. A mere platoon was enough for the invaders to enter a fortress through bribes during the night and claim victory. This rung bells in history since long. Let’s look at a few instances where bribery won the battle but not bows and swords.

1) Battle Of Plassey:

The British managed to buy Mir Jaffar who gave little to no effort in Warding off Clive and his army. The entire might of Bengal fell for a mere 3000 troops. 

2) Occupation of Golconda in the state of Hyderabad was just because a back door guard was bribed to open it.

3) The king of Srinagar who was at the time giving shelter to Sulaiman Shikoh, the Mughal prince was easily bribed by Aurangazeb