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Synopsis Perceptions of generalised social and cultural anomie and acute sense of disorientation both among the intelligent and the public unintended structural shifts and imbalances in society rendering older paradigms of national development open to doubts or even total rejection by some and the breakdown in the national consensus on social and cultural design of society. European thinkers have been analyzing the roots of social and cultural crisis in their society. The crisis in contemporary India invites our attention to analyze some of these issues. It could probably be understood if we examine the course of social change during the past four and five decades. The ideology of nationalism and development experienced a historical fracture in India due to the partition of the country on communal lines. It was heroine and far-sighted on the part of our national leadership to have adhered to its chosen path of nationalism aiming at secular, democratic and socialist development of society despite this trauma of history.