Indian Modernity

Contradictions, Paradoxes and Possibilities

Häftad, Engelska, 2025

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Indian Modernity (first published in 1998) acquires a new meaning today. While it critiques a techno-militaristic model of modernization, it visualizes alternative possibilities to give a distinctively new definition to our modernity. It engages the reader in dreaming of a new path to modernity beyond its present contradictions and paradoxes with its lyrical style, philosophic insights, sensitivity to deep religiosity, life-affirming femininity and, most of all, sociological imagination.This book continues to hold relevance for social science students and researchers, teachers, and visionaries, despite the passage of time.This title is co-published with Aakar Books. Print editions not for sale in South Asia (India, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bangladesh, Pakistan and Bhutan)

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Utgivningsdatum2025-05-06
Mått138 x 216 x 14 mm
Vikt320 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor254
FörlagTaylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN9781032666655

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Preface to the New EditionPrefaceIntroduction—Critical Engagement with ModernityI. Sociology and ModernityII. Advent of PostmodernityIII. Modernity and Indian Social Reality1. Intellectual Traditions in Modern IndiaI. Intellectuals and Their Ideals: A Conceptual ClarificationII. Birth of Modern Intellectuals: Colonialism and the Vision of New IndiaIII. Intellectuals and the Project of Modernity in Post-Independence IndiaIV. Need for Self-Introspection2. Limits to Secular Modernity: Religiosity and its PossibilitiesI. Soft Secularism and its GainsII. Beginning of a Militant Agenda: Secularism an ModernityIII. Religion and its Altered Modes of FunctioningIV. Discontents of Secular Thinking and Necessity of Spiritual ReligionV. Religion, Secularism and Contemporary India3. Assertion of Femininity: Modernity and its AmbiguitiesI. Cultural Ideals of Indian WomanhoodII. Imagining a New WomanIII. Feminist ChallengeIV. Feminist Journey to Emancipation: Overcoming CommunalismV. Consumerism: Yet Another ObstacleVI. Towards an Alternate Agenda4. Culture as an Arena of Struggle: Debates on Tradition, Modernity and RevivalI. Understanding CultureII. Great Cultural IdealsIII. Onslaught of ModernityIV. Globalization, Consumerism and Mass CultureV. Colonization of ReligionVI. Limits to Cultural Relativism5. Conflict of Worldviews: Imagining an Emancipatory VisionI. Mythologization of DevelopmentII. Cultural NarcissismIII. Dalit AssertionIV. Emerging ConflictsV. Alternative WorldviewConclusion—Spiritualizing ModernityIndex