ID: 8669  -  Marina Camboni  -  Macerata Type: Text Format: Medium: Article Extent: 8 pp. Identifier: Source: Title: India: A Contemporary Perspective Subtitle: Alternative: Agents: Creator: Role: Name: Created: Date: Issued in/on: 1939-04 Language: English Rights: Relation: IsPartOf Qualifier: Life and Letters To-day Apr.1939 13-20 Coverage: Place: India Time: 1939 Description: Singh explains that although speaking of national stereotypes is generally wrong, it seems appropriate to say that Indian people has a prodigious memory. This does not help in the situation of India. Singh points two usual distintc approaches to face the transition of those years in India: the nostalgic approach of the older intelligentsia looking at the past, and the approach of the younger radicals, looking at the future instead. Both are mistaken in the author's point of view because they miss the link between past, present and future. The right approach in his opinion is the one that is based on contemporaneity and has a sense of history as a dinamic and organic process, and holds a time-perspective. Subjects: Places Subjects: Identity Subjects: Identity Subjects: Nationalism/Regionalism Subjects: Definitions of Culture Subjects: Definitions of Culture Subjects: Cultural Practices Subjects: Race/Ethnicity Subjects: Arti/Facts Keywords: India Keywords: contemporary Keywords: history Keywords: stereotyping Keywords: contemporary Keywords: history Keywords: stereotyping Keywords: stereotyping Keywords: Life and Letters To-day Query Subject+Keyword: (Places, India) Query Subject+Keyword: (Identity, contemporary) Query Subject+Keyword: (Identity, history) Query Subject+Keyword: (Nationalism/Regionalism, stereotyping) Query Subject+Keyword: (Definitions of Culture, contemporary) Query Subject+Keyword: (Definitions of Culture, history) Query Subject+Keyword: (Cultural Practices, stereotyping) Query Subject+Keyword: (Race/Ethnicity, stereotyping) Query Subject+Keyword: (Arti/Facts, Life and Letters To-day) Comment: