Role of Culture in Development

Kapila Vatsyayan

• Publisher: D.K. Printworld
• Print ISBN: 9788124609057
• eBook ISBN: 9788124609958
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Indian & South Asian History
• Index: Social Sciences

About the Book

This book covers a spectrum of topics related to culture and development that Dr Kapila Vatsyayan presented on different occasions and platforms. "Culture" has a wide meaning and varied interpretations. The term "development" is equally loaded and complex. Both the terms mean different to different persons. Development sans cultural values and ethos makes no sense. Therefore, interlinking of developmental programmes with cultural and educational programmes is imperative.
The volume thus discusses topics such as underlying concepts of the Indian cultural heritages; cultural configuration; profiling of cultural development; cultural tourism, its scope and impacts; new educational policy and the need to incorporate cultural goals in it; cultural osmosis between India and Indonesia; cultural patterns of India; what is culture from the Indian perspective; challenges in institutionalizing culture; cultural relations between India and Indo-China countries; and the contribution of Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes for providing a unique identity to Indian culture.
It also deals with Mahatma Gandhi's blueprint on development and the report of World Commission on Culture and Development; Lenin's role in making culture available to the Soviet masses and speaks about an ecology of human resources; and contributions of the Orientalists and the present status of Oriental institutes, among some other topics.

About the Author

Kapila Vatsyayan, Chairperson, IIC-International Research Division, India International Centre, New Delhi, and a former Member of Parliament (Rajya Sabha), is a well-known and leading scholar of interrelatedness of the arts. She was the founder-director of the Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts in Delhi, and has been Secretary, Government of India in the Department of Arts and Culture, where she was involved in framing policies with regard to many institutions of higher education and culture in India. She has also been the President, India International Centre; and Member, UNESCO Executive Board. She is the author of over thirty books, including Classical Indian Dance in Literature and the Arts (1968), The Square and the Circle of Indian Arts (1983), and a series of monographs on the Gita Govinda. She has conceived and organized conferences and exhibitions covering a range of concerns in Indian art, education and culture, and is the editor and general editor of several publications. In 2011, she was honoured with the "Padma Vibhushan" by the Government of India.

Index

A

a better way of life 17, 96

abhinayas 173

Abolition of Untouchability (Protection of Civil Rights Act) 185

abstraction, framework of 10

Academy of Technology 180

acute discrimination, subtle power of 67

ādhibhautika 169

ādhidaivika 169

ādhyātmika 170

administrative

infrastructure 141

system 141, 145

adult education programme 50, 117, 189

Aeschylus 198

aesthetic

attitude 18

sensibilities 189

sensibility, development of 18

theory 91, 173

Afghanistan, tribes of 81

Age of Enlightenment 98

Age of Muslim Dominance 165, 175

agricultural cycle 19, 20, 69

agro-cultural activity 18

Ajanta 29, 61

Akademies 163

Akari 204

alaukika 90, 169

Alchi, murals of 29

Alexander the Great 121

all-embracing definition of culture 106

All India Advisory Committee for Museums 124

All India Association for Christian Higher Education 33

All India Handloom and Handicrafts Bo...

Table of contents

• Publisher’s Note
• Contents
• Towards a Cultural Policy
• Some Underlying Concepts of the Indian Cultural Heritage
• Cultural Configuration
• Cultural Development : A Profile
• Cultural Dimensions of Tourism
• Cultural Goals of New Educational Policy
• Cultural Osmosis between India and Indonesia
• Cultural Patterns of Asia
• Culture and Development
• Culture : The Crafting of Institutions
• Institutionalizing Culture
• Jottings on Indian Culture
• Lenin and His Role in Making Culture Available to the Masses
• Perspectives on Cultural Relations between India and Indo-China
• Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes : An Alternative Approach
• Toward an Ecology of Human Resources
• Whither Orientalism?
• Index