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Comment: Political Modernization in India.

  • UPSC 1993
  • 20 marks
  • Grassroots Democracy

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Political modernisation, in Samuel Huntington's Political Order in Changing Societies (1968), means the rationalisation of authority, the differentiation of specialised structures and the expansion of participation. Lucian Pye called the same bundle the "development syndrome" of equality, capacity and differentiation; Gabriel Almond added cultural secularisation. The theory expected tradition to retreat as the modern advanced.…

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  • The modern frame: authority and participation
  • Tradition as the vehicle
  • Reaching the village: democratic deepening
  • Limits: decay beside development
  • Conclusion
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