Module 11: Indian Social Thoughts
  Lecture 33:Issues in Modernization in India – II (Search for a Just, Human Order)
 

QUESTIONS AND EXERCISE

  • Is development a value?

  • What are developed and less developed countries? How is development different from modernization?

  • What were the alternatives when the country started modernizing under the British rule?

  • Is it important to include the concept of soul force in defining the ideas of Sarvodaya and Swaraj?

  • What were Gandhi’s expectations from freedom movement?

  • What did the pre-colonial India pass on to colonial India, and colonial India to the post-colonial India?

  • How relevant is Gandhi’s critique of education, parliament and industry today?

  • What is the message of Sri Aurobindo to modern India?

  • What do the writings of Anand K. Coomaraswamy convey?

  • Write an essay on the usefulness of traditional thought in India’s development?