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Comment critically on The heterogenic features that influenced Indian tradition, according to Yogendra Singh.

  • UPSC 2010
  • Perspectives on the Study of Indian Society

In Yogendra Singh's Modernization of Indian Tradition (1973), heterogenetic change is change whose source lies outside the tradition's own value system, as against orthogenetic change generated from within it — a distinction he takes from Robert Redfield and Milton Singer. Singh's argument is that India's heterogenetic contacts were powerful at the structural level and comparatively…

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