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Rethinking Modernity Analysis of Epistemological Change in Socio-Cultural
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Methodological Slumber/Self-forgetfulness
Generally, the studies about Kerala's pasts are oblivious
of the self-image generated through the modernizing
period (which subsequently fashioned the socio political
present). While looking back, one is quite often looking
back as a 'modern' subject into a past that attempted to
envisage and create this notion of 'modern'. The
prominent methodology have always been to look at the
past from/through this self-image and narrate the story
by saying that there was 'renaissance', there was 'reform'
etc without problematising the very assumptions about
modernity underlying such story telling. Udaya Kumar
captures this perceptively:
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