On this point I must disagree that this makes it more likely to follow the USSR than the PRC. China possesses a multitude of different ethnic groups and languages. There are fifty-six "official nationalities", but even that doesn't adequately account for the country's actual ethnic diversity. Most printed PRC currency has up to four or five languages on the note itself. Various estimates place the number of distinct written languages in China at anywhere between fifteen and thirty, and surveys of the total number of indigenous languages spoken in the country have been known to place the number well into the hundreds. In this way, we see that the PRC is possessed of 'at least' as much ethnic diversity as the USSR, if not more, and the assertion that India would more likely to follow the USSR than the PRC for this reason becomes fallacious.PRI should probably be modelled on USSR than on Maoist China because
i) India has a lot of different ethnicities and "nationalities" like the USSR