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^1. Incidentally, theirs is the pioneering contribution to the understanding of social change, with Book Three of their volume fully devoted to this aspect of society.

^2. It is used in the sense of non-material.

^3. This series was edited by Alex Inkeles, and published by Prentice-Hall in 1963. Later, its cheaper edition, called the Eastern Economy Edition, was published in India.

^4. They, however, claimed to be universal. The demand for indigenization, which was raised vociferously in the 1980s by scholars from developing societies, was in fact a demand for the de-parochialization of the western theories (see Atal, 1981).

^5. Although this organization is much older than the United Nations, it was brought under its umbrella.

^6. Mrs. Gro Harlem Brundtland, Prime Minister of Norway, chaired the World Commission on Environment and Development. The Report, titled Our Common Future, was published by Oxford University Press, New York, in 1987.

^7. Yogendra Singh has used the terms orthogenetic and heterogenetic to refer to the primary and secondary stages of growth.