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POLITICS AND BEYOND

Year: 2002

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xvi + 244 pp

About the Book

The essence of modernity lies in a paradox : while it reprsents an unceasing search for virtue, the elements that constitute the fundamental attributes of modernity make this search utterly futile. This paradox, is needless to say, at the root of modern problematique. Efforts to overcome it flounder the hard rock of y;et another paradox these efforts are inspired by, grounded in, and informed by different components that, int their interaction, have conspired to engender this paradox in the first place. It therefore, becomes necessary to go beyond the framework of the worldview that is the unquestioned source of his paradox. Politics and Beyond underlines this necessity and offers three different but organically linked paradigms- Gandhian thought, Swadhyaya, and, the source of these two the Vedicperspective-which promise to overcome the ills mankind is contemporaneously suffering today as a result of his cupidity. Central to all these perspectives is their insistence on the need to establish a conscious and living relationship between the finite existence of man and absolute that constitutes the primal source of meaning and order. It is this relationship that is the theme of Politics and Beyond. It is, again, this relationship that installs order in man’s interior and the external world, particularly socio-political universe.


About Author

: Ramashray Roy, an eminent Political Scientist, is currently a fellow of the Indian Council of Historical Research, New Delhi. Earlier, during the 1998-2001 he was a Fellow of the Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla where he worked on the Vedic Vision of Political Order. Evenearlier, hw was a Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Developing Socities, Delhi (1963-1992) and one of its founder members and its director du;ring 1976-1982. He was director at the Indian Council of Social Science Research, New Delhi (1972-1976) and its National Fellow during 1994-1996. He is the president of Tantrabati Geeta Bhawan Trust, Madhubani. He is the recipient of Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru National Award of the M P Government in Social Sciences in 1993. He has taught in several universitites in the USA. He has also been associated with the United Nations University, Tokoyo. He has written more than two dozen books in the areas of Indian politics, Bureaucracy, Development, Gandhian Thought, Political Philosophy, and traditional Indian thought. His recent completed study is Marriage in Mithila: A study in Samskara. He has contributed numerous articles to leading journals in India and abroad. He is currently working on Purusha, Purana and History.


Contents

Introduction. Society and Politics: Unity and Diversity.Civil Society: Myth and Reality.The Concept of Development : Its Implications for Self and Society. Culture and Development: The Question of Connection. Social Diversity, Modernization and National Intergation: A Theoretical Perspective. Beyond Ego's Domain: Emotion, Rationality and Prajnana. Multiculturalism and Development.The Limits of Human Rights.Sustainable Development of Society: Imperative and Perspective. Federalism. Elections, Democracy and Development: The Search for Interconnections. What Does Good Government Mean. Worldview-Culture and Society in India.Index


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