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“Tradition and modernity co-exist in contemporary Indian society’.

  • UPSC 1997
  • Perspectives on the Study of Indian Society

Classical modernisation theory treated tradition and modernity as rungs on one ladder: Daniel Lerner and Talcott Parsons assumed that as one rose the other fell. The statement denies that zero-sum premise and asserts simultaneity. It is substantially correct, but "co-exist" is too mild a verb — in India the two do not merely share a…

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