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- Title
Patisars Today: Tagore, Modernity and Social Change in Contemporary Rural Bangladesh.
- Authors
Islam, S. Aminul
- Abstract
In Patisar, Tagore developed his paradigm of modernization which he had started earlier at Shelidah and continued to practice later at Shriniketan. At the heart of this paradigm lay the notion of human-centred development - development of human capability set in the context of nature. He came to regard village and community as the theatre of development, rather than the city or the state. The paradigm highlighted human agency and volunteerism, and included cooperatives for mobilization of the poor, schooling for development of human capital, healthcare, infrastructure development, modernization of agriculture, development of cottage industries, micro-credit for indebted peasants, alternative dispute resolution for good governance, rural appraisal for knowledge generation and, above all, the growth of self-potency and human creativity. Tagore thus envisioned the most holistic modernization paradigm that has ever been articulated-- more comprehensive than the idea of 'second modernity' and cosmopolitanism proposed by Ulrich Beck, one of the leading sociologists of the world today, more philosophically grounded than human development, bottom-up development, green development or deep ecology.
- Subjects
BANGLADESH; MODERNIZATION (Social science); SOCIAL development; PARADIGMS (Social sciences); MASS mobilization; VOLUNTEER service; HUMAN capital; COSMOPOLITANISM; SOCIAL history
- Publication
Bangladesh e-Journal of Sociology, 2013, Vol 10, Issue 2, p8
- ISSN
1819-8465
- Publication type
Article