INDIA BETWEEN TRADITION AND MODERNITY
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- ISBN13: 9.78813E+12
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher Imprint: Rawat
- Pages: 304
- Language: English
- Edition: First
- Item Weight: 500
- BISAC Subject(s): Sociology
The book is primarily a self-presentation of Indian sociologists and their recent theoretical and empirical research endeavours. Not only it provides an opportunity for diagnosing what Indian sociologists have identified as the most important issues for various social communities, but also helps reproduce the idiomatic interpretation of modernization in the colonial and post-colonial contexts. And, last but not least, it offers a convenient point of departure for reflection on Western Europe and its international role-modelling function.
The book deserves to be read carefully, not only because it provides an excellent review of universality, rationality and diversity in post-colonial India but also because it shows that it makes sense to translate the western world of modernization into the categories and images of Indian capitalist modernization. By approaching the determinants, mechanisms and consequences of this translation in contemporary India so comprehensively and insightfully, it directs our attention towards European modernization rationale and helps take stock of European sociological achievements. And, it is particularly valuable for Polish sociology and sociologists to have a better view of the Western European case of translation of capitalist models of transformation vis-à-vis the European context and the global context.
The book deserves to be read carefully, not only because it provides an excellent review of universality, rationality and diversity in post-colonial India but also because it shows that it makes sense to translate the western world of modernization into the categories and images of Indian capitalist modernization. By approaching the determinants, mechanisms and consequences of this translation in contemporary India so comprehensively and insightfully, it directs our attention towards European modernization rationale and helps take stock of European sociological achievements. And, it is particularly valuable for Polish sociology and sociologists to have a better view of the Western European case of translation of capitalist models of transformation vis-à-vis the European context and the global context.
Joanna Kurczewska is Professor of Sociology at the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland, and is also the Editor-in-Chief of the Polish Sociological Review.
Ishwar Modi is Professor of Sociology and a pioneer of leisure studies in India. He is presently Director, India International Institute of Social Sciences and President, Indian Sociological Society.
Janusz Mucha is Professor of Sociology and head of the Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology at AGH University of Science and Technology in Kraków, Poland. His interests cover minority studies, social theory, social aspects of technology and intergenerational relations and has also authored many books and articles on these subjects.
Ishwar Modi is Professor of Sociology and a pioneer of leisure studies in India. He is presently Director, India International Institute of Social Sciences and President, Indian Sociological Society.
Janusz Mucha is Professor of Sociology and head of the Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology at AGH University of Science and Technology in Kraków, Poland. His interests cover minority studies, social theory, social aspects of technology and intergenerational relations and has also authored many books and articles on these subjects.