The Modernity of Tradition: Political Development in India (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780226731377)

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.


Author: Lloyd I. Rudolph, Susanne Hoeber Rudolph
ISBN-10: 0226731375
ISBN-13: 9780226731377
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Language: English
Published: 07/15/1984
Pages: 316
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 8.68h x 5.61w x 0.69d