Indian Modernity: Contradictions Paradoxes and Possibilities
Pathak, Avijit (Dr.)
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Book ID : 23972
ISBN-10 : 81-212-0612-X / 812120612X
ISBN-13 : 81-212-0612-9 / 8121206129
Place
of Publication :
Delhi
Year
of Publication :
2013
Edition :
Language : English
243p., Index, 23 cm.
CONTENTS
CONTENTS:- Preface; Introduction: Critical Engagement with Modernity; Intellectual Traditions in Modern India; Limits to Secular Modernity: Reliogiosity and its Possibilities; Assertion of Femininity: Modernity and its Ambiguities; Culture as an Arena of Struggle: Debates on Tradition, Modernity and Revival; Conflict of Worldviews: Imaging an Emancipatory Vision; Conclusion: Spiritualizing Modernity;
DESCRIPTION
What characterizes contemporary sociology is its critical engagement with modernity. In Contemporary India too-espically after the crises of the Nehruvian Agenda of the national building-there is a critique of developed and sharped by social scientists who have been influenced by Gandhism.
