IDB Also Recedes

September 16, 1967 around and by thinking and rethinking on them that we shall be able to state significant research problems and make the appropriate design to study them. Otherwise, we shall ever be caught unprepared when suddenly laced with problems and search for answers in the latest foreign journals and dig up some complicated models which will subsequently be given up in favour of another set of borrowed models. We may be suddenly alarmed to find from Selig Harrison that caste and BUSINESS language groups are consolidating themselves at the cost of national solidarity and then be consoled by the Rudolphs that the new caste associations are effective mediators between tradition and modernity, and that they are making the transition smooth. Ultimately the Indian social scientists will have to make up their mind about the nature of modernity they are seeking for their country and the pace at which they would plan to arrive at that state.