All nations and societies have considered it crucial to evaluate the role and relevance of tradition for their own generation and beyond. This discourse has a fundamentally different content and quality in non-Western societies as against the shape it takes in the West. Indeed, because of the differing trajectories of historical evolution in the Western and non-Western world, the “Relevance” question itself applies essentially to the latter.
The questions raised by delving into the reasons and effects of this situation provided the driving impulse for a conference organized by the IIC-International Research Division which has now been published as this fascinating volume. It contains papers by scholars from backgrounds as diverse as from Benin, Ghana, Ethiopia, Egypt, Mauritius, Senegal, Lebanon, Mexico, Argentina, as well as Greece, Russia, Germany, the UK and the USA, besides some countries in Asia. This book is a must-read for students and scholars of sociology and political science.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR K. Raghunath
Shri Kotra Raghunath was born to (Late) Sri Surendranath Benarjee and Laxmi Saraswati in the year, 1949 September 7th had B.Sc. Degree in 1971 and M.A. in Ancient History and Archaeology in 1975 from Andhra University and had his M. Phil Degree from Nagarjuna University in 1985 and joined to Government Service in Srisailam Hydro Electric Project Scheme, Archaeology and Museums Department in 1978 under the supervision of (late) Dr. R. Subrahmanyam garu and attended to number of archaeological excavations explorations. After demise of Dr. R. Subrahmanyam garu transferred to Archaeology and Museums Department, Hyderabad during 1983 as a Technical Assistant and promoted to Assistant Director (Projects) in Polavaram Project in 1998 and transferred to Rajahmundry and after disbandment of project transferred to Kakinada as Assistant Director (Museums) and continuing in the same at Kakinada in Andhra Sahitya Parishad Government Museum and Research Institute, till date. During the research period totally 12 research articles were published in different journals also participated in number of excavations conducted by the department of Archaeology and Museums, Government of Andhra Pradesh, Hyderabad.
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