Marxist Dialectic to Understand Conversion and Social Change in Arunachal Pradesh: Beyond Synthesis

Abstract

Studies on social change in India after independence have presented a complex and skewed dimension of the process not only in its totality but also at its component level. In a total perspective, the social change manifests in certain important and visible areas, such as: the rise in fundamentalism, casteism, regionalism, ethnic assertion, economic diversification, urbanization, political democracy and lite racy. Within each area , the changes are unevenly patterned displaying further complexities.