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How far is tradition a barrier to modernisation? Does modernisation not take the form of traditionalisation in India?

  • UPSC 1984
  • Visions of Social Change in India

The question contains its own answer. Early modernisation theory, following Talcott Parsons's pattern variables and Daniel Lerner's The Passing of Traditional Society (1958), treated tradition and modernity as polar types, so tradition could only be an obstacle. Indian scholarship dismantled that dichotomy. The honest verdict is that tradition obstructs modernisation in some respects and to…

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  • How far tradition genuinely obstructs
  • But the dichotomy itself is unsound
  • Does modernisation take the form of traditionalisation?
  • Conclusion

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