The Modernity of Tradition: Political Development in India (Midway Reprint)

by Susanne Hoeber Rudolph (Author), Lloyd I. I. Rudolph (Author)

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  2011

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  Stressing the variations in meaning of modernity and tradition, this work shows how in India traditional structures and norms have been adapted or transformed to serve the needs of a modernizing society. The persistence of traditional features within modernity, it suggests, answers a need of the human condition.

  Three areas of Indian life are analyzed: social stratification, charismatic leadership, and law. The authors question whether objective historical conditions, such as advanced industrialization, urbanization, or literacy, are requisites for political modernization.