What is Modernization?

India created cultural illiteracy in the name of modernity

Introduction

Modernization of Indian tradition is a sociological debate about the process of modernization that has taken place in India. Some thinkers argue that process of modernization has never happen in India because many traditional institutions are still powerful and have governing impacts over both the public and private life.

Y. Singh here hold different views, as he argues that classical modernization thinkers gave only one way modernization model but this cannot be true. He argues that there are two kinds of values that any society exhibits

• Traditional Social Structure & Modernisation
• Traditional Cultural Values & Modernisation
• Two Kinds of Values in Society

“Complete Structural Breakdown of Tradition” — What It Means

Structural inconsistency in India

Yogendra Singh

• Contemporary relevance (MIT)

              **Other Sociologist Observation**                          

• Contemporary sociological comments
• Contemporary examples of Traditions getting Modernised

Colonial View on Modernisation of Indian Tradition

Conclusion

The modernization debate has taken

According to Dipanker Gupat, Yogender Yadav analysis of modernisation made it a subject of human relations rather then just the thing to study in sociology.