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Distinguish between Westernization and Modernization. How do tradition and modernity co-exist in India?

  • UPSC 1988
  • Visions of Social Change in India

M. N. Srinivas deliberately chose Westernisation over modernisation in Social Change in Modern India (1966), holding the latter evaluative: it declares one state of affairs better than another, while Westernisation names a historical source. The two differ not in degree but in what they point at — a civilisation, or a principle.

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