Engaging with Modernity and Development in India: A Nehruvian Perspective - Softcover

Babu, G.S. Suresh

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3659192503 ISBN 13: 9783659192500

Publisher: LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, 2012

Synopsis

It is well known fact that moderniy has always been explained and understood by a set of objective conditions, institutional formations and their transformation. By slightly departing from what has already been told, this book entails the experimental realities of intellectual disposition as a normative intervention by drawing a biographical sketch of Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, the first prime minister of India. This book seeks to invite attention of a variety of dispositions embedded in him as nation-builder, architect of modern india and a post-colonial intellectual. Nehru visualised a series of public reasons to realise a society with spirit of democracy, secularism, and socialism. His engagement with modernity, as a national leader, had profound impact upon the way development and progress of the nation was conceived in the post-colonial India. The author critically evaluates how Nehru negotiated with the criteria of modernity. This book not only would open up debate on the questions of modernity among the social scientist but also evoke those who are engaged in the process of modernity.

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About the Author

Dr. Suresh Babu is faculty at the Dept. of Sociology, University of Jammu, India. He obtained his Masters from Loyola and was awarded MPhil and PhD from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Babu has been teaching Indian Society, Social Change, Social Theories & Modernity and his research focuses on development in the post-colonial era

Edition details

• Publisher: LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 3659192503
• ISBN 13: 9783659192500
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 60