The 'concept of development' allowed people to classify different countries as:
1) Developed, developing, or underdeveloped.
2) Industrialized, rural, or urban.
3) Socialist, capitalist, or communist.
4) Modern or traditional.

Choose the correct answer from the given options:

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The correct answer is Option 1: 1

1- Developed, developing, or underdeveloped.

The notion of development and modernization:

The first decade after Independence witnessed a lot of debate around this question. It was common then, as it is even now, for people to refer to the ‘West’ as the standard for measuring development. ‘Development’ was about becoming more ‘modern’ and modern was about becoming more like the industrialised countries of the West. This is how common people as well as the experts thought. It was believed that every country would go through the process of modernisation as in the West, which involved the breakdown of traditional social structures and the rise of capitalism and liberalism. Modernisation was also associated with the ideas of growth, material progress and scientific rationality. This kind of idea of development allowed everyone to talk about different countries as developed, developing or underdeveloped.