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Discuss Yogendra Singh’s thesis on Modernisation of Indian Tradition, and evaluate its applicability in the present day context.

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  • Impact of Colonial Rule on Indian Society

Yogendra Singh's Modernization of Indian Tradition (1973) argued that modernisation in India would not displace tradition but be absorbed by it. Five decades on, the test is whether that remains a description of India or has become a period piece. The verdict is split: the mechanism he identified is demonstrably alive, the explanation he attached…

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