One of the things about Japan that matters, I'd say, is how we see
liberal democracy working itself out in a decidedly non-Western, yet otherwise very
modern,
nation.
Modern reformation movements in traditional Indian religions especially the movements of Neo-Hinduism indicated the impact of modernity on Indian life at its religious level, and India's
liberal democratic and leftist ideologies guiding the struggle for political independence and
nation - building in independent India, indicate the assimilation of Enlightenment humanism at the ideological level, though qualified a great deal by the reformed religious view of Gandhism.