Contemporary India: a sociological view

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Globalization, Hindutva and the Mandal agitation have transformed our social landscape over the last two decades and confronted us with new problems and possibilities. Why are we so eager to claim modernity in same contexts and so anxious to disown it in others? How does the economy come to rival religion and history as a source of national identity?

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