The Modernity of Tradition

The Modernity of Tradition

Political Development in India

by Lloyd I. Rudolph, Susanne Hoeber Rudolph

316 pages· 1984· ISBN 9780226731377
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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.

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