Modern Makeovers: Handbook of Modernity in South Asia

by Saurabh Dube

Is modernity new to India, involving the transformation only in recent decades of an apparently timeless traditional society through global networks of banking and industry, migration and information, and trade and technology? Or have different groups on the Indian subcontinent variously participated in processes of modernity over a much longer time period? How is modernity itself to be understood and what forms have its expressions taken?

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198074042
• ISBN13: 9780198074045
• Release Date: December 2011
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.48 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 9.9" x 7.6"