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Presented here is a novel approach to understanding the relationship between the past and the present using the unique concept of re-use, wherein elements from the past are strategically adapted into the present, and thus become part of a new modernity. The book uses this method as a heuristic tool for analysing and interpreting cultural and political changes and the transnational flow of ideas, concepts and objects. The chapters apply this concept to South Asia ...
This important book discusses the politics of social change in independent India. Using the post-colonial state as the backdrop, it addresses the theoretical issues of transformation in a multi-cultural and hierarchical society which is coping with the twin challenges of democratisation and development. According to the author, the main theoretical problem arises from the fact that the institutions and processes through which the objectives of social change ...
Despite widespread poverty and illiteracy, and religious and linguistic heterogeneity, India continues to sustain a viable and fairly orderly democratic government. The resilience of Indian democracy in the face of these problems coupled with the challenges posed by modernisation and accelerated social change, is explained in this book with reference to the cultural, institutional and social context of India's competitive and free and fair electoral process. The ...