The discourse of tradition and modernity in contemporary Indian culture

• المؤلف الرئيسي: Ahuja Richa
• مؤلفون آخرون: Brian Keith Bergen-Aurand
• التنسيق: Final Year Project
• اللغة: English
• منشور في: 2009
• الموضوعات: DRNTU::Social sciences::Sociology::Communities, classes and races
• الوصول للمادة أونلاين: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/15219

This paper examines the binary between tradition and modernity in contemporary India through the use of film. It focuses specifically on the Hindu/Indian woman, and the way in which this discourse plays out on her body. I argue that the Victorian morality that the British colonisers of India imposed...