Ep. 124: Religion and Ideology in Indian Society
The Seen and the Unseen - hosted by Amit Varma
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The Importance of Ideology in Conservatism
There's no sort of analog of Burkian conservatism and it's not a definitive statement I'm making. How much does ideology arise from identity in the sense that okay there are social context in which ideologies emerge. Now one can look back at some of these thinkers like the book you mentioned from the Gita Press where for example they might be expressing conservative thoughts but their intent is to preserve caste system. So yeah so this is Paul Rekowak calls harmatics of suspicion that we should look at these treatries and ideologies as to present a suspicion. What are they trying to preserve? What is their hidden intent? They may themselves cannot be aware what they are trying to do when they put
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