Abstract
ISCUSSIONS of the nature and prospects of economic development in India have repeatedly drawn attention to cultural impediments to the evolution of a modern economy. Institutions such as the extended family, caste, and religion have been said to resist change and retard the development of more adaptive and innovative attitudes and values. Although there are good reasons for considering such views to be exaggerations, it is interesting in this connection to examine contexts in which such institutions have changed. Society among Indian communities overseas provides a field for studying situations where key institutions of Indian culture were radically adapted or gradually discarded in the face of new political and economic conditions presented by emigration. The aim of this exploratory essay is to review briefly an extensive and growing literature,' sketching broadly a range of factors associated with the
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