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Write short note with a sociological perspective : M.N. Srinivas’s concept of westernisation.

  • UPSC 2013
  • Perspectives on the Study of Indian Society

M. N. Srinivas introduced Westernisation in Social Change in Modern India (1966) to name the changes produced in Indian society and culture by roughly a century and a half of British rule. The choice of word was deliberate: modernisation already contained a verdict, whereas Westernisation was meant to be ethically neutral and empirically traceable to…

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  • The value core: humanitarianism and rationalism
  • Three levels of penetration
  • Distinguished from its neighbours
  • Critiques
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