Tradition and Modernity: India and Japan Towards the Twenty-first Century

By: Hiroichi Yamaguchi and Haruka Yanagisawa (eds.)

Price: $13.95

Publisher: New Delhi, India, Munshiram Manoharlal Publishers Pvt. Ltd.: 1997

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 002224

ISBN: 8121508053

Condition: New

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To talk of modernization is a daunting task, much more when it comes to a comparison of countries like India and Japan. Being a collection of nineteen papers, ten Indian and nine Japanese, presented at the two Indo-Japanese seminars in 1990 and 1992 and revised, this book aims exactly at doing it. This is, to quote from the late Professor Sukhmoy Chakravarty, who was the moving spirit on the Indian side of those seminars, "the first of a series of dialogues" between the scholars of the two countries in social sciences and humanities. The papers cover the philosophical and religious exp... View more info