Models of Modernity Volume 3 - Issue 1

Anil Kumar Vaddiraju*

• Associate Professor and Head, Centre for Political Institutions, Governance and Development, Institute for Social and Economic Change, Bengaluru, India

Received: November 01, 2020   Published: November 18, 2020

Corresponding author: Anil Kumar Vaddiraju, Associate Professor and Head, Centre for Political Institutions, Governance and Development, Institute for Social and Economic Change, Bengaluru, India

DOI: 10.32474/JAAS.2020.03.000152

 

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Abstract

Modernity, as we know it, emanated from the twin revolutions of Europe: Industrial revolution and French revolution. The economic principles of industrialization and the political principles of French revolution have been built into the development processes of many nations. This is particularly true of post-colonial nations, wherein the principles of the above said modernity have been incorporated into many of their constitutions. These two, economic modernity of industrialization and political modernity of equality, liberty and fraternity have been related processes. Often in developing countries the first has been inadequate. That is to say the industrial modernity has never been realized fully in developing countries. The developing countries of Africa and Asia in particular, to this day, largely remain pre-industrial. And this has limiting consequences on their political modernity. The requisite economic basis, by way of industrial modernity has never come to materialize in order to make way to political modernity. The political modernity therefore is circumscribed by the many limitations not only of their variegated historical past but also by their inadequate industrial development since the decolonization.

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