As Indian society urbanises, caste barriers gradually dissolve, joint families give way to smaller units, women begin to enter the formal economy in large numbers, the young attain universal literacy and start becoming digital natives, hitherto unheard of professions become more commonplace, a sexual revolution brews unheralded, and as civilisational awareness follows industrialisation and in turn leads to self-assuredness, old certitudes as well as Orientalist cliches of a collectivist, traditional, rural, static India start to fall apart.
