Q.Trace M.N. Srinivas's career through the different universities and institutions he was associated with, from his student days onward.

M.N. Srinivas's career traces an unusually direct line through several of the institutions that came to define Indian sociology and social anthropology, beginning with his early education at Mysore University and his subsequent move to Bombay to complete an MA under G.S. Ghurye. He stayed on at Bombay for his doctoral work, submitting a two-volume PhD thesis in 1944, again under Ghurye's supervision -- making him, alongside A.R. Desai, one of Ghurye's own students who went on to shape the discipline independently.

In 1945 Srinivas left for Oxford, where he studied first under A.R. Radcliffe-Brown and then under E.E. Evans-Pritchard, two of the most influential figures in British social anthropology at the time; this period transformed his intellectual orientation and exposed him directly to the structural-functional perspective then dominant in the field. He was awarded a D.Phil. in Social Anthropology from Oxford in 1947 and returned to India, but was shortly afterward appointed to a newly created lectureship in Indian sociology back at Oxford in 1948 -- the same period in which he carried out the decisive year of village fieldwork, later published in connection with Rampura, that shaped so much of his subsequent thinking on the village. …