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Doing sociology in India : Genealogies, locations and practices

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Publication details: New Delhi Oxford University Press 2011Description: 328p xiISBN:
  • 9780198070115
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 301 PAT PAT
Contents:
Contents: Preface; Introduction; I.PASTS AND PRESENTS: DEBATING DISCIPLINARY GENEALOGIES; 1.Sociology: 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? Assessing the Contesting Sociological Visions of M.N. Srinivas and A.R. Desai / Sujata Patel; II.BETWEEN NATION AND REGION: SITUATING SOCIOLOGY; 5.Of Centres and Peripheries: Sociology in Goa / 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 Chaudhuri; 8.Sociology in Karnataka: The Formation and Decline of a Discipline / N. Jayaram; III.NEGOTIATING PRACTICES, RESCRIPTING AGENDAS; Contents note continued: 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 A. Rodrigues; 11.Colonial Anthropology, Law, and Adivasi Struggles: The Case of Jharkhand / Carol Upadhya; 12.Scripting Sociology of Science: Between Knowledge and Democracy in India / Shiv Visvanathan; Index
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Contents:
Preface;
Introduction;
I.PASTS AND PRESENTS: DEBATING DISCIPLINARY GENEALOGIES;
1.Sociology: 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? Assessing the Contesting Sociological Visions of M.N. Srinivas and A.R. Desai / Sujata Patel;
II.BETWEEN NATION AND REGION: SITUATING SOCIOLOGY;
5.Of Centres and Peripheries: Sociology in Goa / 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 Chaudhuri;
8.Sociology in Karnataka: The Formation and Decline of a Discipline / N. Jayaram;
III.NEGOTIATING PRACTICES, RESCRIPTING AGENDAS;
Contents note continued: 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 A. Rodrigues;
11.Colonial Anthropology, Law, and Adivasi Struggles: The Case of Jharkhand / Carol Upadhya;
12.Scripting Sociology of Science: Between Knowledge and Democracy in India / Shiv Visvanathan;
Index