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100			_aSuraj, Anoop Kumar and Upendra, C. _957522
245			_aIntegrating materiality and spirituality: Question of modernity in Rammanohar Lohia’s political thought
260			_aJournal of Human Values
300			_a31(3), Sep, 2025: p.264-277
520			_aThis article discusses the importance of human beings ‘material’ (matter) and ‘spiritual’ (spirit) advancement in Rammanohar Lohia’s concept of modernity and modern civilization. Lohia consistently defended materialism (reason) and spirituality as pivotal human values in his writing and speeches. This article engages with his ideas through a detailed reading of his works, focusing particularly on his essays: ‘Materiality and Spirituality’ and ‘Meaning of Modern Civilisation’. According to him, rational thinking emerges from materialism. He believed spiritual instinct keeps a check on the malicious employment of rationality and science; similarly, rationality prevents the perversion of spirituality into superstition and dogmatism. This article articulates two aspects of interpreting modernity: first, it reframes the epistemological understanding of materialism and spirituality, challenging and clarifying prevailing misconceptions; second, it advocates a comprehensive reconstruction of Indian society, which we understand as praxis. His concept of modernity is an amalgamation of theory and praxis. Lohia unequivocally emphasizes that Indian society would reach the height of development by simultaneously engaging in the spiritual and material development of Indian civilization.- Reproduced https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/09716858241312282
650			_aModernity, Modern civilization, Rammanohar Lohia, Spirituality, Materialism and social reconstruction. _957523
773			_aJournal of Human Values
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