Page 77 - Introducing Cultural Studies

he CSDS

There are three distinct (and often
warring!) schools of South Asian cultural
studies.

The scholars at the Centre for the Study of
Developing Societies (CSDS), Delhi,
established in 1963, practise a special
model of cultural studies rooted in
indigenous forms of social knowledge. The
theoretical work of Rajni Kothari, Ashis
Nandy and D.L. Sheth, amongst others, has
problematized the idea of culture and
questioned the standardized categories of
politics, economics and science.

CSDS scholars are largely concerned with
three main issues. The first relates to the
experience of transformation of "pre-
modern" communities into modern
collectives.

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