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Attempts to Refocus on the Issues Circling the Wagons: Dissent and Censorship Character Assassination Here, India will be a global player of considerable political andeconomic impact.
In this process, they will confront the challenge of respondingto what the West has so far thought and written about India. Aresponse is required because the theoretical and textual study of theIndian culture has been undertaken mostly by the West in the last threehundred years.
In fulfilling this task, the Indian intelligentsia of tomorrow willhave to solve a puzzle: what were the earlier generations of Indianthinkers busy with, in the course of the last two to three thousandyears? The standard textbook story, which has schooled multiplegenerations including mine, goes as follows: caste system dominatesIndia, strange and grotesque deities are worshipped in strange andgrotesque ways, women are discriminated against, the practice of widow-burning exists and corruption is rampant.
If these properties characterize India of today and yesterday, thepuzzle about what the earlier generation of Indian thinkers were doingturns into a very painful realization: while the intellectuals of Europeanculture were busy challenging and changing the world, most thinkersin Indian culture were apparently busy sustaining and defendingundesirable and immoral practices. Of course there is our Buddha andour Gandhi but that is apparently all we have: exactly one Buddhaand exactly one Gandhi.
If this portrayal is true, the Indians have butone task, to modernize India, and the Indian culture but one goal: tobecome like the West as quickly as possible. The knowledge challenge within the transition towards sustainable soil management: An analysis of agricultural advisors in England 18 pages. Tweets in the city: An analysis of when, where and what do we tweet in Paris 5 pages. Conservation and concealment in SpeciesBanking.
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