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A 1987 article, interesting. Found the mid-section a bit problematic
(in its implications), but the ending is, again, insightful:
DIRT AND DEVELOPMENT IN INDIA
by M MILNER JR -
58 THE VIRGINIA QUARTERLY REVIEW entertainment takes on special
importance. Even many ... My thesis is that dirt and development are
two of the most ...
http://www.virginia.edu/sociology/publications/milner%20articles%20for%20web/DirtandDevelopmentinIndia.pdf
My description of traditional concepts of pollution is not meant to imply
that Indians are ingorant yokels who need to learn about Western notionso f
cleanliness. Rather, the point is that Western concepts of cleanliness
interact with and are modified by more traditional notions, and this is what
we should expect when "a great tradition modernizes" -- to use the title of
Milton Singer's important study of India. The enormous social transformation
that India -- with its rich and complex civilization of more than 3000 years
old -- is undergoing involves not merely copying the West but transforming
itself in ways that in some respects may make it quite different from
Western societies.
The focus of this essay has been on dirt because I believe it is one of the
causes -- perhaps the principal cause -- of Western tourists'
misunderstanding of India. They thus may overlook the very real and
important change and development now taking place in the subcontinent. In
the future, India may well be one of the most prominent and powerful
societies in the world. A failurel to grasp this possibility because of a
limited and provincial understanding of dirt would indeed be tragic.
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