Social Reconstruction: Crisis, Culture and Change: In memoriamProfessor S. P. Nagendra

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Abstract India's humanity is at the crossroads of progress and chaos. Between a fragmented, increasingly unequal, restless and violent country and the peaceful and prosperous nation emerging as a new world power on the horizon of a new century, there stands a disillusioned humanity of one billion people still struggling to make ends meet. The juxtaposition of freedom and unfreedom is both frightening and inspiring. The main burden of this article is to signify the construct and contents of social reconstruction in the context of postcoloniality and its imperatives. The failure of developmental theories warrants a fresh look at India's social transformation within a framework of praxis of hope. Vocabularies of Change Kafilatali, February 12, 1947 “Independent India, as conceived by me, will have all Indians belonging to different religions living in perfect friendship. There need be no millionaires and no paupers; all would belong to the State, for the State belonged to them. 1 will die in the act of reali...