I. Postmodernity: What? --
II. Theorizing Modernity and Postmodernity --
Ill. Postmodernity: Themes and Perspectives --
IV. Postmodernity in Post-colonial, Post-feudal Indian Society --
V. Fundamentalist World of Dogma and Danger --
VI. India's Grand Narratives and Emerging Little Traditions --
VII. The Family: Traditional, Modern and Postmodern --
VIII. Interpreting Caste, Village Community and Postmodernism --
IX. India's Culture: Modernity and Postmodernity --
X. Scheduled Tribes: On the Road to Modernity and Postmodernity --
XI. Globalization, Liberalization and Market.

"Postmodernity meets the challenges given by modernity. In India, modernity's benefits are cornered by high caste Hindus, elites, political leaders and higher classes. The subalterns, the marginals and the disadvantaged masses have been left high and dry. It is the modernity which has created religious, academic and market fundamentalism and an age of dark dogma. Ethnicities have become part of damage done to the Indian society my modernity." "Postmodernity combats the challenges given by modernity. In this book, the author applies the perspective of postmodernity to the interpretation of increasingly changing contemporary Indian society. With this he looks afresh at family, caste, village, culture and religion. It is the first time that fundamentalism has been so thoroughly examined by a sociologist."