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082			_a303.4 CHA
100			_aThaper, Romesh (ed.)
245		0	_aChange and conflict in India
260			_aDelhi
260			_bMacmilan
260			_c1978
300			_a146p.
520			_aIt is customary to describe India as a comparatively unchanging region of the world. Indeed, some have even attempted to evolve a distinctive 'model' for the sub-continent. These articles selected from the pages of Seminar, the monthly symposium, present a combination of stirrings which suggest that profound social muta tions are taking place. Admittedly, India has its own time-scale, and many centuries are telescoped into the present, but these years of enlarged freedom and more earnest development have set in motion forces which cannot be blunted. ZEM The materials included in this volume were prepared during the first seventeen years of Seminar's existence (1959-1975). It was a crucial phase in continental development and naturally influenced the writing of the period. In this selection, there is an underlying unity of theme. Against a sweep of history and growing numbers, we pass over the rural and urban scene. Then, age and sex. Reli gionalism, communalism, caste and untouchability take over, giving way to secularism, modernisation and planning. The back drop is an interplay of the forces of tradition and modernity in Indian society. And there is a conclusion on the social sciences, and then prospects.
650			_aSocial Change
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