The Inner Conflict of Tradition: Essays in Indian Ritual, Kingship, and Society c5.1

c5.1

Ever since English Utilitarians and Evangelicals and Indian reformers set out to modernize India, the problem of misunderstood traditions and miscarrying modernization has been with us. It may, therefore, not be out of place to take a point of view that may enable us to understand the meaning and function of tradition, not in order to oppose it once more to modernity, but rather in order to arrive eventually at an integrated view.