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This important volume on the history of sociology in India locates scholars, scholarship, theories, perspectives, and practices of the discipline in different cities and regions of the country over a century.
List of contents
- Introduction: Ruminating on Sociological Traditions in India - Sujata Patel
- I Pasts and Presents: Debating Disciplinary Genealogies
- 1: The Genealogy of the Discipline in Bombay - Manorama Savur
- 2: The Public Culture of Sociology in Calcutta - Anjan Ghosh
- 3: Searching for Bedrock: Contending with the Lucknow School and it Legacy - Sasheej Hegde
- 4: Social Anthropology of Marxist Sociology? Assessing the Contesting Sociological Visions of M.N. Srinivas and A.R. Desai - Sujata Patel
- II Between Nation and Region: Situating Sociology
- 1: Of Centres and Peripheries: Sociology in Goa - Alito Siqueira and Manish Thakur
- 2: Legacy and Rigour: The Bombay School of Sociology and its impact in Universities in Maharashtra - D.N. Dhanagare
- 3: Looking Back: The Practice of Sociology in CSSS/JNU - Maitrayee Choudhury
- 4: Sociology in Karnataka: The Formation and Decline of a Discipline - N Jayaram
- III Negotiating Practices, Rescripting Agendas
- 1: Exorcising the Fear of Identity: Interrogating the Language Question in Sociology and Sociological Language- Sharmila Rege
- 2: Knowledge Production and Transmission: Learning Sociology at the Undergraduate level - Edward Rodrigues
- 3: Anthropology, Law, and Adivasi Movements in Jharkhand - Carol Upadhyaya
- 4: Scripting Sociology of Science: Between Knowledge and Democracy in India - Shiv Visvanathan
- Notes on Contributors
- Index
About the author
Sujata Patel, Professor , Department of Sociology, School of Social Sciences, University of Hyderabad.
Summary
This important volume on the history of sociology in India locates scholars, scholarship, theories, perspectives, and practices of the discipline in different cities and regions of the country over a century.
