Sociology Optional PYQ Solutions · Model answer
What is Cultural Revivalism? Give some examples from performing arts, language dissemination and arts and crafts in recent times.
- UPSC 2017
- 20 marks
- Challenges of Social Transformation
Cultural revivalism is the organised effort to recover and re-circulate expressive forms — music, dance, language, script, craft, festival — held to be decaying or lost. Its object is culture, not doctrine: that separates it from the religious revival with which it is routinely confused.
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