When Did India Become Modern

[dhu]

ramana
there is a lot of work that needs to be done in extending balagangadhara's account to correct all that the erroneous received wisdom we have been fed. for example he considers the typical marxist lament of man's "alienation" from his labor or the product of his labor to be a result of western normative ethics. essentially this relates the entire conception of feudal and modern time periods as just another variant of the christian normative story. ellul's qualification of the marxist framework with the caveat that the means of production in technical society is no longer subordinated to any conceivable end we may invision thus also becomes modified if we take balagangadhara into the equation. modern (western) man is alienated from technique because of the insufficiencies of normative ethics to come to terms with objects outside the immediate normative human domain (eg technique); the concept of alienation from one's work simply does not make sense in the society that is india ( as anyone who has seen the indian babus at work can confirm).....