Module 11: Indian Social Thoughts
  Lecture 31: Indian Social Thoughts
 

QUESTIONS AND EXERCISE

  • What do the Indologists want?

  • Whom will you include in the list of Indian thinkers?

  • Is it possible today to go back to old institutions and structure of India?

  • Summarize A.K.Saran’s views on Indian tradition?

  • What was Vinoba’s attitude towards government?

  • Justify that Nehru was a modernist?

  • Was Ambedkar a traditionalist or a modernist?

  • Write a note on relevance of Lohia’s social thought to contemporary India?

  • In what sense was Lohia a Gandhian?

  • What are the internal contradictions of traditionalist thinking in India?