About the Book: Making Of Modern India Sociological Explorations Into
Postcolonial Indian Modernity
The present work is an attempt to understand how the founding leaders of
independent India envisaged and made an effort to realise the modern Indian
society by rupturing the colonial legacy with the typical local, blended with
the western universal principles of equality, justice, freedom and socialism. At
the time of independence, most of the population of the country was backward,
illiterate and poor, and was living in villages. Cities were the seats of
exercise of colonial power and all decisions were taken in the urban centres. On
top of all these challenges was