RajeshwariAIR 2 · CSE 2025 · 207 wordsTheir whole copy
Opening · a definition
Indian modernity is process involving the new values of rationality, universalism, individualism in Indian society.
Indian modernity persists throughout Indian history since ancient times till contemporary India. It has feature of both continuity & change.
Body · points
Indian modernity has paradoxical features of continuity and change
-> Indian modernity in ancient India is initiated by birth of Buddhism and Jainism which advocated egalitarian society.
-> In modern times of colonial India, Indologists advocate the modernity replacing caste. G.S. Ghurye advocates that with modernity, caste will disapper hence stating changing nature of Indian modernity.
-> With modernisation, cultural changes happen is the claim of M.N.Srinivas in his Westernisation concept.
-> With western and modern ideologies of liberty, equality, fraternity, Indian constitution grows and operates. This illustrate the continuous and changing nature of Indian modernity.
-> Modernity results in social mobilisation in Indian society. Achievement based employment and education prevails. This insists on changing and continuous features of Indian modernity.
-> Secularism in India is prevalent illustration of continuity and change in Indian modernity.
Close · a summary
However, Indian society modernity is selective and adaptive as stated by Yogendra Singh. Caste associations for political benefits is example of it.
Still, with prevalent socio-economic changes, Indian modernity contains both continuity and change as paradoxical features.