Modernity in Indian Social Theory by A. Raghuramaraju

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By A. Raghuramaraju

in contrast to the West, India provides a desirable instance of a society the place the pre-modern keeps to co-exist with the trendy. Modernity in Indian Social thought explores the social variance among India and the West to teach the way it impacted their respective trajectories of modernity. A. Raghuramaraju argues that modernity within the West concerned disinheriting the pre-modern, and temporal ordering of the conventional and glossy. It was once ruthlessly applied via programmes of industrialization, nationalism, and secularism. This booklet underscores that India didn't basically the Western version of modernity or adventure a temporal ordering of society. It situates this sociological complexity within the context of the debates on social concept. the writer seriously examines a variety of discourses on modernity in India, together with Partha Chatterjee’s account of Indian nationalism; Javeed Alam’s analyzing of Indian secularism; using the time period pluralism by means of a few Indian social scientists; and Gopal Guru’s emphasis at the lived Dalit event. He additionally engages with the readings on key thinkers together with Vivekananda, Aurobindo, Gandhi, and Ambedkar.

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