Rethinking Modernity Analysis of Epistemological Change in Socio-Cultural

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Methodological Slumber/Self-forgetfulness Generally, the studies about Kerala's pasts are oblivious of the self-image generated through the modernizing period (which subsequently fashioned the socio political present). While looking back, one is quite often looking back as a 'modern' subject into a past that attempted to envisage and create this notion of 'modern'. The prominent methodology have always been to look at the past from/through this self-image and narrate the story by saying that there was 'renaissance', there was 'reform' etc without problematising the very assumptions about modernity underlying such story telling. Udaya Kumar captures this perceptively: