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The Modernity of Tradition
Lloyd I. Rudolph
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Description for The Modernity of Tradition
Paperback. Num Pages: 316 pages, x, 306 p. BIC Classification: 1QFG; JHBT; JPH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 217 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 367.
Stressing the variations in meaning of modernity and tradition, this work shows how in India traditional structures and norms have been adapted or transformed to serve the needs of a modernizing society. The persistence of traditional features within modernity, it suggests, answers a need of the human condition.
Three areas of Indian life are analyzed: social stratification, charismatic leadership, and law. The authors question whether objective historical conditions, such as advanced industrialization, urbanization, or literacy, are requisites for political modernization.
Stressing the variations in meaning of modernity and tradition, this work shows how in India traditional structures and norms have been adapted or transformed to serve the needs of a modernizing society. The persistence of traditional features within modernity, it suggests, answers a need of the human condition.
Three areas of Indian life are analyzed: social stratification, charismatic leadership, and law. The authors question whether objective historical conditions, such as advanced industrialization, urbanization, or literacy, are requisites for political modernization.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1984
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
316
Condition
New
Number of Pages
316
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226731377
SKU
V9780226731377
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