This book analyses how multiple and hybrid 'modernities' have been shaped in colonial and
postcolonial India from the lens of sociology and anthropology literature media and cultural
studies law and political economy. It discusses the ideas that shaped these modernities as
well as the lived experience and practice of these modernities. The two broad foci in this book
are: (a) The dynamism of modern institutions in India delineating the specific ways in which
ideas of modernity have come to define these institutions and how institutional innovations
have shaped modernities and (b) perspectives on everyday practices of modernities and the
cultural constituents of being modern. This book provides an enriching read by bringing
together original papers from diverse disciplines and from renowned as well as upcoming
scholars.
