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

Papers presented at a workshop held in March 2005 and a seminar held in January 2007 at University of Pune.

Bibliographic Details
Format: Printed Book
Language:English
Published: New Delhi : Oxford University Press, 2011.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : 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.