Doing sociology in India : genealogies, locations, and practices

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Doing sociology in India : genealogies, locations, and practices

edited by Sujata Patel

Oxford University Press, 2011

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This volume debates the different ways in which ideas, practices, and traditions of sociology grew, were organized, and institutionalized in India from the mid-nineteenth century till present times. It facilitates, in a small way, an understanding of the histories of the discipline, while critically examining their origin and growth, their impact, and their limitations. The interplay of three themes- time, space, and power-structures the arguments in this book. The essays in this collection highlight two separate but connected dominant positions that have structured the formation of sociological traditions in India-colonialism and its practices, and ideologies of nationalism and notions of nation and nationhood.

Table of Contents

  • Introduction: Ruminating on sociological traditions in India Sujata Patel
  • SECTION 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 its Legacy Sasheej Hegde
  • 4.Social Anthropology or Marxist Sociology? Situating the divergent sociologies of M.N.Srinivas and A.R.Desai Sujata Patel
  • SECTION II BETWEEN NATION AND REGION: SITUATING SOCIOLOGY
  • 5. Of Centres and Peripheries: Sociology in Goa Alito Siqueira and Manish Thakur
  • 6. Legacy and Rigour: The Bombay School of Sociology and its impact in Universities in Maharashtra D.N Dhanagare
  • 7.Looking Back: The Practice of Sociology in CSSS/JNU Maitrayee Choudhury
  • 8.Sociology in Karnataka: The Formation and Decline of a Discipline N Jayaram
  • SECTION III NEGOTIATING PRACTICES, RESCRIPTING AGENDAS
  • 9. Exorcising the Fear of Identity: Interrogating the Language Question in Sociology and Sociological Language Sharmila Rege
  • 10. Knowledge Production and Transmission: Learning Sociology at the Undergraduate level Edward Rodrigues
  • 11. Anthropology, Law, and Adivasi Movements in Jharkhand Carol Upadhyaya
  • 12.Scripting Sociology of Science: Between Knowledge and Democracy in India Shiv Visvanathan
  • Contributors, Bibliography.

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  • NCID
    BB08987831
  • ISBN
    • 9780198070115
  • LCCN
    2011323055
  • Country Code
    ii
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    New Delhi
  • Pages/Volumes
    xxxviii, 328 p.
  • Size
    23 cm
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