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Offering new insights into the political economy of contemporary
India, this book considers how and why unequal patterns of economic
growth have taken shape within the context of a democratic and
decentralising political system, and how this has impacted upon the
processes of economic development.
Offering new insights into the political economy of contemporary
India, this book considers how and why unequal patterns of economic
growth have taken shape within the context of a democratic and
decentralising political system, and how this has impacted upon the
processes of economic development.
Emerging out of the Renaissance and the industrial revolution, the
set of disciplines that got institutionalised as the social
sciences were fashioned in Europe. However, what were areas of
scholarly inquiry responding to specifically Western problems and
concerns, laid claim to universality in course of time and were
uncritically accepted as being so until they began to be challenged
by non-Western thinkers in the second half of the twentieth
century. Bringing together 18 essays by distinguished social
scientists, this volume is a major contribution to the debate on
the indigenisation of the social sciences. It addresses two central
questions from a primarily Asian perspective: - Are the social
sciences that originated in the West, and are essentially
indigenous to it, universal for the rest? - Can the universal
explain the particular, unless the universals in the particulars of
different cultural contexts contribute to the construction of the
universal? Some of the issues explored in this twin framework are:
- The de-parochialisation of Western social science. - The concept
of the 'captive mind', which fails to fathom its captivity. - The
limitations of Western social sciences on crucial issues such as
modernisation, economic liberalisation and structural adjustment. -
The validity and potential of indigenous models of development as
demonstrated by Bhutan's concept of Gross National Happiness. -
Oral traditions and their potential for universal knowledge.
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