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Analyse the impact of the modern West on traditional social values in India.

  • UPSC 1989
  • Perspectives on the Study of Indian Society

Louis Dumont framed the encounter most sharply. In Homo Hierarchicus (1966) he read India as a holistic ideology where the whole encompasses the part and hierarchy is the supreme value, against a modern West whose homo aequalis makes the individual the ultimate unit and equality the ruling idea. The impact on values is thus not…

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  • The axes of change
  • How the values travelled
  • Why replacement did not follow
  • The evidence of unevenness
  • Conclusion

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