The Interrelationship Between Modernity and Globalization
The interrelationship between modernity and globalization
The rurality-modernity encounter in village India is taking place under the canopy of parliamentary democracy which the consembly adopted, in preference to Gandhian advocacy of Panchayat-based self-government, but its isocratic architecture tilts the power-balance towards the villages which seem to have defied the global mega-trend of ‘developmental de-ruralization’.
The British colonialism is the vital player in the history of India’s modernity and globalization. Modernity is thought with the nation state, bureaucracy, advanced and liberal economy. Transformation into a global economy and values comes thereafter. The unique features of India; multiculturalism, multi ethnicism, multi religion system helped India to became a global player for sure. In this essay I will be arguing that there is an obvious relationship between modernity and globalization when the example of India is taken into consideration both historically, from the days of British colonialism till today, especially from 1980s’ economic liberalization. Having a strong bureaucracy and being an established democracy helped out the India to turn into a modern society. The intelligence technology (IT) expansion turned India to both a global market and player. The classical modernity theory “increases the credence given to status of education or other merit based achievements while it reduces the credence given to birth status”. However, not all the segments of the society benefited from the modernization and the globalization of India at the same all, while some segments went better off continuously, the others were deprived. In today’s world, it is almost impossible not to hear the name of India with China in terms of economic growth. But the main question India’s modernity and its role in the global economy. India is a “multi-cultural, multi-ethnic society with a vibrant democracy and a free press and readily exposes to shortcomings.”
The rurality-modernity encounter in village India is taking place under the canopy of parliamentary democracy which the consembly adopted, in preference to Gandhian advocacy of Panchayat-based self-government, but its isocratic architecture tilts the power-balance towards the villages which seem to have defied the global mega-trend of ‘developmental de-ruralization’.
The British colonialism is the vital player in the history of India’s modernity and globalization. Modernity is thought with the nation state, bureaucracy, advanced and liberal economy. Transformation into a global economy and values comes thereafter. The unique features of India; multiculturalism, multi ethnicism, multi religion system helped India to became a global player for sure. In this essay I will be arguing that there is an obvious relationship between modernity and globalization when the example of India is taken into consideration both historically, from the days of British colonialism till today, especially from 1980s’ economic liberalization. Having a strong bureaucracy and being an established democracy helped out the India to turn into a modern society. The intelligence technology (IT) expansion turned India to both a global market and player. The classical modernity theory “increases the credence given to status of education or other merit based achievements while it reduces the credence given to birth status”. However, not all the segments of the society benefited from the modernization and the globalization of India at the same all, while some segments went better off continuously, the others were deprived. In today’s world, it is almost impossible not to hear the name of India with China in terms of economic growth. But the main question India’s modernity and its role in the global economy. India is a “multi-cultural, multi-ethnic society with a vibrant democracy and a free press and readily exposes to shortcomings.”
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