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Write shprt note : The India intellectual between tradition and modernity.

  • UPSC 1986
  • Perspectives on the Study of Indian Society

The phrase is Edward Shils', from The Intellectual Between Tradition and Modernity: The Indian Situation (1961), built on fieldwork among Indian academics and writers. His verdict was severe: the Indian intellectual was isolated and ineffectual, holding a role colonial education had created but Indian society had not yet made its own.

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  • Shils' diagnosis
  • Extending the diagnosis
  • The Indian division of intellectual labour
  • Where the argument stands
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