Solution

The survival capability is far more important for India's poor than freedom or the legal system. The foreign rulers have been replaced by corrupt politicians and a self-serving bureaucracy, so I don't think the poor in India are free of fear now that the country is independent. Moneylenders and power brokers are having a field day. The situation for the poor in cities and towns has improved, but the poor in isolated villages continue to be afraid of large farmers and moneylenders. They continue to be terrified of the police and tax collectors.
The poor, landless labourers nevertheless have to put in a lot of effort to make ends meet. Peasants and tenant farmers must borrow money at excessive interest rates from wealthy moneylenders, which they typically are unable to pay back because of monsoon failure or poor harvests. Small-scale farmer suicides are a very typical occurrence.