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Most theories of modernity are based, explicitly or implicitly, on the development of Western societies since the late medieval period and they generally assume that modernization was a process that took place over several centuries. But these theories are of limited value for understanding the development of societies in Asia and other parts of the world where the process of modernization took place under different circumstances and often in a rapid and highly compressed fashion – not over cent
