Culture and Ideology-Contradictions in Intellectual Transformation of Colonial Society in India

Contradictions in Intellectual Transformation of Colonial Society in India K N Panikkar The colonial conquest underlined the weaknesses of the traditional order and the need for reform and regeneration of its institutions. Colonial hegemonisation tended to destroy the tradition itself A cultural-ideological struggle ensued on two planes simultaneously: against the ideological basis of the traditional order as well as against the colonial hegemonisation.