Sociology · Class 11 Arts
Ch 7Indian Sociologists — Class 11 Sociology, concept-first.
Indian sociology is a young discipline -- younger even than its European counterpart. Interest in the sociological way of thinking here goes back a little over a century, but sociology was taught at a university for the first time only in 1919, at the University of Bombay; Calcutta and Lucknow set up teaching and resea…
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Anthropology Founders Practice
Before Ghurye, Mukerji, Desai and Srinivas established sociology and social anthropology as academic disciplines in Indian universities, two men had already been practising social anthropology in India without ever train…
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Ghurye on Caste and Race
Indian sociology is a young discipline -- younger even than its European counterpart. Interest in the sociological way of thinking here goes back a little over a century, but sociology was taught at a…
D.P. Mukerji on Tradition and Change
D.P. Mukerji came to sociology only after growing dissatisfied with history and economics as he had studied them, because neither discipline, in his view, took seriously what he considered the one tru…
A.R. Desai on the State
Among the themes A.R. Desai worked on, the modern capitalist state held a special place, and he approached it, as he approached most questions, from an explicitly Marxist standpoint.
M.N. Srinivas on the Village
The Indian village stayed at the centre of M.N. Srinivas's work for his entire career, but it was not until he spent a full year doing fieldwork in a village near Mysore -- the study that became famou…
Conclusion
Taken together, Ghurye, D.P. Mukerji, A.R. Desai and M.N. Srinivas illustrate just how differently Indian sociology could be, and was, shaped into a discipline suited to a newly independent, modernisi…
Glossary
This chapter's glossary gathers six terms that recur across the profiles of Ghurye, Mukerji, Desai and Srinivas.
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- Q1How did Ananthakrishna Iyer and Sarat Chandra Roy come to practice social anthropology?Free
- Q2What were the main arguments on either side of the debate about how to relate to tribal communities?Free
- Q3Outline the positions of Herbert Risley and G.S. Ghurye on the relationship between race and caste in India.Free
- Q4Summarise the social anthropological definition of caste.Preview
- Q5What does D.P. Mukerji mean by a 'living tradition'? Why did he insist that Indian sociologists be rooted in this tradition?Preview
- Q6What are the specificities of Indian culture and society, and how do they affect the pattern of change?Preview
- Q7What is a welfare state? Why is A.R. Desai critical of the claims made on its behalf?Preview
- Q8What arguments were given for and against the village as a subject of sociological research by M.N. Srinivas and Louis Dumont?Preview
- Q9What is the significance of village studies in the history of Indian sociology? What role did M.N. Srinivas play in promoting village studie…Preview
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- Q1Apart from his writings on caste and race, what part did G.S. Ghurye play in building sociology as an academic discipline in India?Free
- Q2D.P. Mukerji's influence went beyond academic sociology into public life. What other areas of intellectual and public activity does the chap…Free
- Q3Besides his critique of the welfare state, what other major themes did A.R. Desai work on as a sociologist? In what way was his Marxist pers…Preview
- Q4Trace M.N. Srinivas's career through the different universities and institutions he was associated with, from his student days onward.Preview