Modernisation, development, and globalisation: Occidental discourses and oriental reality

Abstract

While understanding post-independence Indian history and India's social, cultural, and economic formations, several social scientific discourses have been produced. Modernisation, development and globalisation are a few of such discourses. These discourses or social scientific ways of thinking, speaking and writing have come to India from the West. An attempt has been made to a description of these discourses and their ideological roles, pragmatic suggestions and utopistic potentials when they came to India. Also, attempts are made to build the Indian nation-state on the models provided by these discourses.