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‘Indian tradition, today, exhibits a form of neotraditionalism along with modernisation’. Comment.

  • UPSC 1990
  • Perspectives on the Study of Indian Society

Neo-traditionalism is not the survival of the old. It is the deliberate re-assertion and re-packaging of tradition by modern means — mass media, corporate organisation, market branding and state patronage — for purposes that are themselves contemporary. Eric Hobsbawm and Terence Ranger (The Invention of Tradition, 1983) supply the lens: traditions that claim antiquity are…

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  • What makes it "neo"
  • The machinery of manufacture
  • Why this is a modern phenomenon, not a relapse
  • The critical balance
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