TECHNOLOGICAL PROGRESS & BREAKDOWN OF TRADITION: ANALYSIS OF BRITISH PERIOD IN INDIA

Abstract

The specified paper represents a critical argument of dialectic interdependence between development of technology and dissolution of the traditional organization in India at one of the times in the British colonization. It also poses a query concerning how the technologies that the British entered in taken with them such as the railway, the telegraph and the new industrial setting were not just a method of economic subjugation, but a source of alienation to the culture. The caste system of occupation was disrupted and broken by these new technologies in making the local industry faster deindustrialized and agrarian economy. The colonial educational system which aimed at producing a subservient population of elites kept on shattering the systems of knowledge and collective governments that had existed and relocated identities and external social desires. In this work, the ironic coinciding nature of the colonial modernization to its development and simultaneously, destruction of the cultural, social autonomy of the Indian society at the systemic level is predicted. In this case, a writing reveals the impact of the prism of critical approaches to imperialism, modernization, cultural hegemony systematic deep social divisions that had been introduced by the British technological interventions, which simultaneously caused nationalistic resistance and, at the same time, disorganized the traditional life to such a degree that they could not be rearranged.