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Volume 22:11 November 2022
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The Renaissance and Kerala’s Project of Modernity

Atheen Ajayan Uzhuvathu, M.Phil., Ph.D. Research Scholar

Abstract

This paper critically evaluates the process of cultural renewal that took place in Kerala in the late 19th and the early 20th centuries, especially Kerala's engagement with modernity, modern culture and modern forms of subjectivity manifested chiefly in the unfolding of the reform movements and renaissance intellectual activities.

Keywords: Kerala, renaissance, modernity, cultural renewal, 19th and 20th centuries.

Introduction

The aim of this paper is to present and critically evaluate the discourse of modernity in the late 19th and 20th century Kerala, especially in the light of the new understanding of the concept of ‘culture’. Most contemporary scholars have recognized the need to integrate the issue of ‘cultural differences’ into the theorization of the concept of modernity (Chatterjee 18). That is, current scholarship discards the universality of modernity as a rationalised institutional and cultural order by asking whether ‘the culture of modernity’ is a generic experience that leads to common expressions and cultural forms all over the world. In his article titled “Multiple Modernities”, S.N. Eisenstadt writes:

They all (classical sociologists such as Marx, Durkheim and Weber) assumed…that the cultural program of modernity as it developed in modern Europe and the basic institutional constellations that emerged there would ultimately take over in all modernizing and modern societies….

The reality that emerged after the so-called beginning of modernity… failed to bear out these assumptions. The actual developments in modernizing societies have refuted the homogenizing and hegemonic assumptions of this Western program of modernity (1).

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Atheen Ajayan Uzhuvathu, M.Phil., Ph.D. Research Scholar
School of Letters, Mahatma Gandhi University
Kottayam, Kerala
atheenajayanuzhuvathu@gmail.com
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