Full Description
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.
Contents
Introduction I. Historical-Intellectual Dimension 1. Rational Resonance in Indian Intellectual Traditions 2. Thoughts of Pandita Ramabai and Sardar Patel on Socio-cultural Change: Convergence and Dichotomy II. Institutions and Cultural Change 3. Explaining Culture: As an Interpretive and Pragmatic Phenomenon 4. Culture Change in India: The Making of Colonial Modernity and Beyond 5. In Search of Political Culture: Location of Education in Indian Democracy 6. Cultural Explorations: Encountering Folk Deities in Jammu Region of Northwest India 7. Socio-historical Perspective on Culture of Hierarchy and Power in India 8. Whose Daughters or Daughter Discrimination: Declining Child Sex Ratio in North-West India 9. Culture, Communication and Identity in the Era of Globalization in India 10. Cinema and Culture in Indian Sociology: A Theoretical Excursus 11. Education and Holistic Cultural Nationalism in India III. Culture Change in Different Regions 12. Ecology, Culture and Social Change: A Comparative Study of Two Ecological Regions in India 13. Culture as Flowing River: The Case of Contemporary Punjabi Music 14. Culture among the Liangmai Naga Tribe in North-East India: A Sociological Study 15. Getting Old in North America: The Dilemmas of Diasporic Indians 16. Cultural Diversity and Multiculturalism in India and Europe
