Modernisation and Ethnicity: Locating the Telugu Community in Bangalore
Kumar, D.V.
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Book ID : 31077
ISBN-10 : 81-8324-107-7 / 8183241077
Place
of Publication :
Delhi
Year
of Publication :
2006
Edition :
Language : English
xiv, 202p., Tabls., Map, App., Bib., Index, 23 cm.
CONTENTS
CONTENTS:- Introduction: Specific focus; On methods and modes of enquiry; Emprical locale of the study; Consolidation of Telugu identity; Structure of the book; A Conceptual Discussion: Modernity and modernisation: Their Historicity; Critique or discontents of modernity; Emprical understandings of modernisation; Ethnic group and ethnicity; Ethnicity, race and nation; community; Relationship between modernisation and ethnicity-Some theoretical aspects: Theories of Decline; Theories of persistence; Modernisation its empirical context; Ethnicity and Modernisation: The contextualisation of their relationship; Ethnicity and the political context; Ethnicity and the economic context; Ethnicity and the socio cultural context; A critical presentation of case studies.
DESCRIPTION
This book seeks to look at the relationship between modernisation and ethnicity. Modernisation [Modernity in action] was expected to have struck a blow to ethnic identities. As classical scholarship argued ethnicity would lose its significance in the context of modernisatin, however one may define it. Modernity, a product of the European enlightenment, was supposed to free us from the constraints would become increasingly weakened. But what one notices today is not only the persistence of ethnic identities but in fact their growing strength both in the developing and traditional societies and the 'modern' and advanced societies.
