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‘Tradition is not always incompatible with Modernity’. Comment on the statement with reference to the modernisation trends in Indian policy.

  • UPSC 1992
  • Party System

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Mid-century modernisation theory, from Talcott Parsons's pattern variables to Daniel Lerner's The Passing of Traditional Society (1958), placed tradition and modernity at opposite ends of one line: ascription would give way to achievement, and faith to reason. Joseph Gusfield called these "misplaced polarities" (1967). The Indian polity is the strongest evidence for the statement, though…

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  • Why the dichotomy failed
  • Tradition as a carrier of modernity
  • Modernisation trends in the polity
  • Alternative modernities
  • Where the two still collide
  • Conclusion
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