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Critically examine Yogendra Singh’s thesis on ‘Modernisation of Indian Tradition’.

  • UPSC 2022
  • Perspectives on the Study of Indian Society

Yogendra Singh's Modernization of Indian Tradition (1973) was written against the convergence assumption of modernisation theory — the idea, running from Daniel Lerner through Talcott Parsons, that tradition must retreat as modernity advances. Singh's counter-claim was that in India tradition did not retreat: it took on modern functions and survived by performing them.

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