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The postcolonial Indian societies including the state seem preoccupied with a great belief in modernity as a most efficient resource for solving problems in nearly every walk of life. Due to such pervasive assumption along with some of the demerits of tradition, it is generally observed that people tend to assume traditional knowledge, expertise and techniques to be outdated and/or futile. The above mentioned pervasive and popular view seems to be one sided and simplistic because it unnecessarily places a high belief in the reliability and potential of modernity. It seems necessary to carefully scrutinize the reality about modern and traditional knowledge and expertise in order to obtain nuanced information about them. A careful scrutiny of the primary resources in this article shows that the application of modernity could be counterproductive or problematic and one could combine both traditional and modern resources productively.