Colonial Modernity

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This book is an attempt to understand how the various aspects of Indian society engaged with western modernity which pervaded her along with British colonialism. The critique of colonial modernity is, however, not unilinear and mechanical. In modernity, contradictory trends work. While modernity had its colonial implications in our politics and economy, culture and epistemology, it also helped to create an understanding of its own limitations. Ironically, this critical understanding is, at least partly, a contribution of modernity. Researchers in this book made interesting and original investigations into experiences of colonial modernity in India as well as its present day implications in relation to a wide variety of issues.