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Culture Change in India Intellectual Traditions, Institutions and Regions
This book studies the different dimensions of culture change in India. It covers important strands of the ancient and modern intellectual traditions of India and the socio-cultural changes that the country underwent during the colonial, post-independence modernization, and globalization periods in the country. In this context, the authors examine some of the major aspects of culture change observed at the institutional level across the country. They also touch upon cultural diversity and multiculturalism in India and Europe, as well as the dilemmas faced by diasporic Indians in North America.
Lucid and topical, this book will be an essential read for students and scholars of sociology, sociology of culture, history, political science, cultural anthropology, Indian sociology, social anthropology, cultural studies, and South Asian studies.
Introduction
B.K. Nagla and Kameshwar Choudhary
I. Historical-Intellectual Dimension
1. Rational Resonance in Indian Intellectual Traditions
Hulas Singh
2. Thoughts of Pandita Ramabai and Sardar Patel on Socio-cultural Change: Convergence and Dichotomy
Neerja Singh
II. Institutions and Cultural Change
3. Explaining Culture: As an Interpretive and Pragmatic Phenomenon
K. L. Sharma
4. Culture Change in India: The Making of Colonial Modernity and Beyond
Renuka Singh
5. In Search of Political Culture: Location of Education in Indian Democracy
Suresh Babu G.S.
6. Cultural Explorations: Encountering Folk Deities in Jammu Region of Northwest India
Abha Chauhan
7. Socio-historical Perspective on Culture of Hierarchy and Power in India
D. Sundaram
8. Whose Daughters or Daughter Discrimination: Declining Child Sex Ratio in North-West India
Karuna Chanana
9. Culture, Communication and Identity in the Era of Globalization in India
Biswajit Das, Ajaz Ahmad Gilani and Archana Singh
10. Cinema and Culture in Indian Sociology: A Theoretical Excursus
Amit Sharma
11. Education and Holistic Cultural Nationalism in India
Ehsanul Haq
III. Culture Change in Different Regions
12. Ecology, Culture and Social Change: A Comparative Study of Two Ecological Regions in India
S. M. Michael
13. Culture as Flowing River: The Case of Contemporary Punjabi Music
Paramjit Singh Judge
14. Culture among the Liangmai Naga Tribe in North-East India: A Sociological Study
Ajailiu Niumai
15. Getting Old in North America: The Dilemmas of Diasporic Indians
Annapurna Devi Pandey
16. Cultural Diversity and Multiculturalism in India and Europe
Sheetal Sharma
Biography
B. K. Nagla is former Professor, Department of Sociology, M.D. University, Rohtak, Haryana, India.
Kameshwar Choudhary is former Professor, Department of Sociology, Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar (Central) University, Lucknow, India.
