Author: Rasheeduddin Khan
Publisher: Allied Publishers
Year: 1987
Language: English
Pages: 372
ISBN/UPC (if available): 8170231078
Description
Perceived in the framework of world's most complex plural society, composite culture and national integration are two vital elements of a holistic transformation. This book is a product of presentations by eminent figures and ensuring discussions at a National Seminar.
New India is emerging in the backdrop of a colonial and feudal past. Two basic and complex processes of this civilizational transformation in contemporary India are: the slow unfolding and extension of an all-India composite culture, and the simultaneous emergence of a distinct pattern of national integration, which remains besieged by the forces of disruption and fragmentation. At one level these are two different processes, and can be discussed in isolation.
But at another, and a more meaningful level, they represent jointly a design of congruence, signifying the convergence of one major process of socio-cultural change generated in the wake of a massive plan of industrialization and the concomitant expansion of a cosmopolitan ethos, with another major politico-administrative process that seeks to stabilize the foundations of a post-colonial territorial sovereignty in the world’s most complex and populous plural society.
In their confluence the two processes provide legitimacy to the gigantic construction of a continental secular democracy. Perceived in this framework of an organic linkage, both ‘composite culture’ and ‘national integration’ appear as two vital elements of a holistic transformation, intertwined with, and interacting on each other, sometimes as catalyst, but always as complementary processes of change and creativity, in the emergence of a new Indian identity.
Within this rationale of enquiry, recognizing the complementarities of the two processes, the Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla, convened a seminar on the theme, ‘Composite culture of India and National Integration’, in September 1984. This book is a product of that seminar.
Contents
Preface
List of Contributors
An Overview: Rasheeduddin khan
PART ONE
THE THEME AND THE PROBLEMATIQUE
A. The Theme: Language Comments
A Poser on the Theme: Composite Culture of India and National Integration
B. The Problematique: The Problematique: The Heritage of Composite
Culture as an Input in the Processof Building a New National Identity in
India
PART TWO
THE ROOTS AND THE CONTEXT OF COMPOSITE CULTURE IN INDIA
Macro-Perceptions: The Foundations of Composite Culture in India
The Elements of Composite Culture
Micro-Studies: Indian Islam, Composite culture and Integration
The Sikh Perspective of Culture and Integration
Manipuri Culture ---- A Case Study
PART THREE
PHILOSOPHICAL UNDERPINNINGS
Interplay of Scenarios
What Makes us Indian?
Our Glorious Heritage and challenges of the Future
India and the Future Culture of Man: a Search for New Perspectives
PART FOUR
ASPECTS OF DIVERSITIES AND INTEGRATION OF THE INDIAN POLITY
A. - Dimension: Ethno-Cultural Diversities of India and National Integration
Developmental Process and Integrated Differentiation within the Indian Polity
B. - Problems: Impediments in the process of National Integration
International Problems
Elements of Unity and Disunity in India
Challenges to Integration
Educating for National Integration
Judicial Role and National Integration
PART FIVE
SUMMATION
The Contours of Composite Culture of India and National Integration
The Image of India as a Confluence of Cultures
The Secular Culture of India