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Modernity is the end state of becoming modern is mistaken in India. Modernity has been misrecognised in India because of the tendency to equate it with technology and with other contemporary artefacts (Gupta 2000) What we see now as India’s attempt to be modern is only superficial modernisation or ‘westoxication’…