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Doing sociology in India : genealogies, locations, and practices /

"This 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. It argues that this history is enmeshed in political projects of constructing a society, which...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Sujata Patel, Ed
Other Authors: Sujata Patel. Ed
Format: Printed Book
Published: New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2011.
Series:Oxford India paperbacks
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Online Access:https://books.google.co.in/books?id=GnxJDwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=9780199467020&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi37aCal4biAhVMp48KHagmBGYQ6AEIMDAB#v=onepage&q&f=false
Table of Contents:
  • Ruminating on sociological traditions in India / Sujata Patel
  • Sociology : the genealogy of the discipline in Bombay / Manorama Savur
  • The public culture of sociology in Calcutta / Anjan Ghosh
  • Searching for bedrock : contending with the Lucknow School and its legacy / Sasheej Hegde
  • Social anthropology or Marxist sociology? : Assessing the contesting sociological visions of M.N. Srinivas and A.R. Desai / Sujata Patel
  • Of centres and peripheries : sociology in Goa / Alito Siqueira and Manish Thakur
  • Legacy and rigour : the Bombay School of sociology and its impact in universities in Maharashtra / D.N. Dhanagare
  • Looking back : the practice of sociology in CSSS/JNU / Maitrayee Chaudhuri
  • Sociology in Karnataka : the formation and decline of a discipline / N. Jayaram
  • Exorcising the fear of identity : interrogating the "language question" in sociology and sociological language / Sharmila Rege
  • Knowledge production and transmission : learning sociology at the undergraduate level / Edward A. Rodrigues
  • Colonial anthropology, law, and Adivasi struggles : the case of Jharkhand / Carol Upadhya
  • Scripting sociology of science : between knowledge and democracy in India / Shiv Visvanathan.