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Write short note : Impact of West on Indian society.

  • UPSC 2001
  • Perspectives on the Study of Indian Society

M. N. Srinivas gave the process its name. Westernisation, as he defined it in Social Change in Modern India (1966), refers to the changes brought about in Indian society and culture by roughly a hundred and fifty years of British rule, operating at four levels — technology, institutions, ideology and values. The impact is best…

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  • Educational
  • Social and cultural
  • Ideological — and the counter-current
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