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How do little tradition and great tradition coexist in contemporary Indian society?

  • UPSC 2022
  • Religion and Society

Robert Redfield (Peasant Society and Culture, 1956) held that every civilisation has a great tradition, the reflective culture of the literate few carried in texts, temples and schools, and a little tradition, the largely oral culture of the unlettered many in villages. In India the two do not sit in separate layers. They coexist through…

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