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Colonial Syndrome...
Colonial Syndrome
The Videshi Mindset in Modern India by: K. Ramakrishna RaoTwo centuries of British rule gave English educated Indians a peculiar mindset that tended to undervalue their native ethos and moorings, and make English culture more attractive. This tendency is called colonial syndrome. This book attempts to define and elucidate this syndrome and its ill effects, and suggests means to contain and overcome it.
$40.00
ISBN: 9788124609330
Year Of Publication: 2018
Edition: 1st
Pages : xiii, 288
Bibliographic Details : Bibliography; Index
Language : English
Binding : Hardcover
Publisher: D.K. Printworld Pvt. Ltd.
Size: 23 cm.
Weight: 600
Two centuries of British rule crystallized in the minds of English educated Indians a peculiar mindset that tended to undervalue their native ethos and moorings, and make English culture more attractive. This tendency is called the colonial syndrome. This syndrome has infected the modern Indian elite, who abandon their cultural roots and imitating the Western ways. This situation has drained them off their intrinsic creative capabilities and rendered them less likely to make any significant original contributions to nation building.
This book, an outcome of Prof. K. Ramakrishna Raos work as a National Fellow of Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR), attempts to define and elucidate this syndrome and its ill effects on the modern Indian mindset, and suggests means to contain and overcome it. It alerts people and the leadership about the negative and cascading effects of colonial syndrome, and pleads for Indianization of education, philosophy and psychology, among others in the country. Mahatma Gandhis concept of svadeÁ is the driving force here. It has no negative attributes, only positive self-assertion for common good.
Colonial Syndrome goes on to analyses Gandhis concept of svadeÁ, and attempts to make clear the difference between education in India and Indian education, Indian philosophy and philosophy in India, and psychology in India and Indian psychology and emphasizes that India had its own unique standing on education, philosophy and psychology which needs to be revived and nurtured for fast social and economic development.
Foreword
Jitendra Mohan
Preface
1. Introduction
2. Gandhis Way: A Birds Eye-View
3. Education in India and Indian Education
4. Indian Philosophy and Philosophy in India
5. Psychology in India and Indian Psychology
6. The Colonial Syndrome and the Indian Mindset
Afterword
Anand C. Paranjpe
Bibliography
Index