Indian Modernity: Challenges and Responses

Indian Modernity: Challenges and Responses

Dr. Jaswandi Wamburkar

Modernity is a multi-dimensional movement and different cultures and nations demonstrate variants of modernity, India has progressed through a unique history vis-à-vis the Western world as the former experienced a complex phenomenon of renaissance, age of modernity and shift to capitalist mode all almost in the same period under the shadow of colonial yoke. Modernity and its manifestation in various fields has remained a thrust area of research of Professor Raja Dixit and his close associates. And hence, all the articles contributed by eminent scholars in the present volume throw light either on personalities or different facets of human life that directly or indirectly contributed in the shaping of Indian Modernity. The volume explores the processes of introducing new education, science and history-writing, advent of new ways of transport and communication railways, print culture, literature, theatre and film, the social and political reform movements and their philosophy.

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