Restructuring of Values
Princes in 1971 Elections
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2106977 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Harish Khare (University of Delhi, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1973 |
| Volume | 15 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 405-415 |
| Publication date | 1973-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Comparative Studies in Society and History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0010-4175 • E-ISSN: 1475-2999 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0010417500007222 |
| OpenAlex | W2135401830 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 18 |
Not long ago when the State-owned Air-India acquired its first jumbo jet, it was christened 'Emperor Ashoka', a two-thousand year old name for an ultra-modern technological innovation. Let us look at another event. About two months before the jumbo's arrival, Prime Minister Indira Gandhi had observed, at a seminar in New Delhi, that modern India should discard the traditions and the irrelevant values, customs, conventions and social systems, while retaining the timeless values for which it had stood for centuries. I have picked up these two events to underscore the problem of harmonizing tradition with innovation, a problem confronting every society in which the elite has set out a timetable of political development through modernization. (I do not intend to engage in the rather unfruitful exercise in terminology, for the definition of these terms would demand a separate paper to satisfy a purist
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| Citations per year | 0,25 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2022 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |