Indian Modernity
eBook - ePub

Indian Modernity

Contradictions, Paradoxes and Possibilities

  1. 254 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Indian Modernity

Contradictions, Paradoxes and Possibilities

About this book

Indian Modernity (first published in 1998) acquires a new meaning today. While it critiques a techno-militaristic model of modernization, it visualizes alternative possibilities to give a distinctively new definition to our modernity. It engages the reader in dreaming of a new path to modernity beyond its present contradictions and paradoxes with its lyrical style, philosophic insights, sensitivity to deep religiosity, life-affirming femininity and, most of all, sociological imagination.

This book continues to hold relevance for social science students and researchers, teachers, and visionaries, despite the passage of time.

This title is co-published with Aakar Books. Print editions not for sale in South Asia (India, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bangladesh, Pakistan and Bhutan)

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Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Half Title Page
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. Preface to the New Edition
  8. Preface
  9. Introduction Critical Engagement with Modernity
  10. 1 Intellectual Traditions in Modern India
  11. 2 Limits to Secular Modernity: Religiosity and its Possibilities
  12. 3 Assertion of Femininity: Modernity and its Ambiguities
  13. 4 Culture as an Arena of Struggle: Debates on Tradition, Modernity and Revival
  14. 5 Conflict of Worldviews: Imagining an Emancipatory Vision
  15. Conclusion Spiritualizing Modernity
  16. Index