1st Edition

Culture Change in India Intellectual Traditions, Institutions and Regions

Edited By B. K. Nagla, Kameshwar Choudhary Copyright 2024
366 Pages
by Routledge India

366 Pages
by Routledge India

366 Pages
by Routledge India

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... Read more

             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.