Die Modernität der Tradition: Politische Entwicklung in Indien (überarbeitet)

Author/Contributor(s):	Rudolph, Lloyd I ; Rudolph, Susanne Hoeber
Publisher:	University of Chicago Press
Date:	07/15/1984
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

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.