Globalisation, modernisation and development: Northern discourses and southern reality

Abstract

While understanding post-independence Indian history and India's social, cultural and economic formations, several social scientific discourses have been made use of. Globalisation, modernisation and development 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 is made to describe these discourses and their ideological roles, pragmatic suggestions and utopistic potentials when they came to India and when attempts were made to build the Indian nation-state on the models provided by these discourses.