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Describe the process of modernization in India. Discuss the factors that have impeded this process.

  • UPSC 2003
  • Visions of Social Change in India

Yogendra Singh, in Modernisation of Indian Tradition (1973), treats modernisation not as Westernisation but as the spread of a rational and universalistic attitude to issues. He reads Indian change along two axes — structural (law, administration, occupation) against cultural (values), and orthogenetic (generated within the tradition) against heterogenetic (imported by contact). On that grid India's…

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  • The process, in phases
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