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Author : Gabriele Dietrich
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9788178210117
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (11 download)
Download or read book Towards Understanding Indian Society written by Gabriele Dietrich and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : A. M. Shah
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9788125038450
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (384 download)
Download or read book Understanding Indian Society written by A. M. Shah and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Understanding Indian Society brings together a collection of writings by eminent scholars across disciplines that capture the dynamic character of Indian society. The fifteen essays focus on four vital areas-gender relations, religion, developmental concerns and social change, and the future of the disciline of sociology. The volume explores a wide range of issues as varied as Muslim women's struggle for independence in a patriarchal society, colonial linkages of female foeticide, religious and communal conflicts, dilemmas of practising medical ethics, participation of the Patidar diaspora in the prosperity of the Gujarati community, among others. Taken together, the collection demonstrates the analytical richness of current scholarship and gives fresh insights into the society of India. Commemorating Professor A. M. Shah's work in the contemporary context, the contributors highlight the major role he played in the growth of sociology as a discipline. The book will be of interest to specialists in gender studies, sociology of family and religon, medical socillogy and development studies. It will also appeal to readers interesed in the complex structure and practices of Indian society.
Author : A.M. Shah
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 042968522X
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (296 download)
Download or read book The Structure of Indian Society written by A.M. Shah and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2019-04-02 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the structural features of Indian society, such as caste, tribe, sect, rural-urban relations, sanskritization and untouchability. Based on a wealth of field research as well as archival material, the book Interrogates the prevailing thinking in Indian sociology on these structures; Studies Indian society from contemporary as well as historical perspectives; Analyses caste divisions vis-à-vis caste hierarchy; Critically examines the public policies regarding caste-less society, reservations for Backward Classes, and the caste census. This second edition, with four new chapters, will be a key text for students and scholars of sociology, social anthropology, political science, modern history, development studies and South Asian studies.
Author : Samarth Modku Dahiwale
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Understanding Indian Society written by Samarth Modku Dahiwale and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite A Distinctive History Of Conflict From The Times Of Buddha To The Contemporary Ambedkar, Social Scientists Have Made Non-Brahman Traditions A Part Of Broader Hinduism. In British India, Although A Number Of Social Reformers Had Launched Anti-Systemic Movements To Challenge The Hegemony Of Upper0Caste Hindus But There Are Several Issues Of Identity, Power, Conversion, Gender Inequality And Social Justice Which Have Not Been Addressed Properly. And, Since The Last Decade, The Militant Hindus With Their Extent Of Aggression To Implement The Agenda Of Pan-Hinduism. It Is In This Backdrop, An Attempt Is Made In This Book To Reveal The Other Side Of The Story. The Non-Brahmanic Perspective Perceives The Practices Which Are Non-Vedic, Non-Shastric, Non-Castiest, Non-Patriachal Or Having Equalitarian Character, And A Number Of Attempts Made To Bring About Change/Transformation Towards The Egalitarian Order Through Protest/Resist/Action Movements Against The Brahmanic Hegemony. Accordingly, The Attention Is Focused In This Book On The Concepts Of Nation And Village, The Roots Of Untouchability, Anti-Caste Movements, Conversion Movements, And Caste Inequality In Relation To Educational And Social Policies. The Book Will Prove Useful For The Students, Teachers And Scholars In The Disciplines Of Sociology, Politics, Social Anthropology And History. Contents: Introduction- S.M. Dahiwale; Understanding Indian Society: The Relevance Of The Perspective From Below- T.K. Oommen; Nation, Anthropology And The Village- Surinder S. Jodhka; The Broken Men Theory Of Untouchability- S.M. Dahiwale; Perspectives Of The Anti-Caste Movements: Subaltern Sociological Visions- Gail Omvedt; Decoding Dalitism: Reflections On Dalit Literature In Maharashtra- S.P. Punalekar; Conversion As Subversion Of Hierarchy- Ambrose Pinto S.J.; Conversion, Empowerment And Social Transformation- S.M. Michael; Brahmanical Social Order And Christianity In India- Lancy Lobo; Educational Stratification, Dominant Ideology And The Reproduction Of Disadvantage In India- Padma Velaskar; Confronting Caste Inequality: What Sociologists Must Do To Reorient Social Policy- Satish Deshpande.
Author : A. Raghuramaraju
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199088365
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (99 download)
Download or read book Modernity in Indian Social Theory written by A. Raghuramaraju and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2010-12-06 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike the West, India presents a fascinating example of a society where the pre-modern continues to co-exist with the modern. Modernity in Indian Social Theory explores the social variance between India and the West to show how it impacted their respective trajectories of modernity. A. Raghuramaraju argues that modernity in the West involved disinheriting the pre-modern, and temporal ordering of the traditional and modern. It was ruthlessly implemented through programmes of industrialization, nationalism, and secularism. This book underscores that India did not merely the Western model of modernity or experience a temporal ordering of society. It situates this sociological complexity in the context of the debates on social theory. The author critically examines various discourses on modernity in India, including Partha Chatterjee’s account of Indian nationalism; Javeed Alam’s reading of Indian secularism; the use of the term pluralism by some Indian social scientists; and Gopal Guru’s emphasis on the lived Dalit experience. He also engages with the readings on key thinkers including Vivekananda, Aurobindo, Gandhi, and Ambedkar.
Author : Abha Chauhan
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 9811615985
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (116 download)
Download or read book Understanding Culture and Society in India written by Abha Chauhan and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-06-26 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an in-depth account of people’s cultural and religious life in the Jammu region of Jammu and Kashmir, India. It brings out the significance of Sufi and deity shrines as alternative places of worship that give meaning and purpose to people’s lives. It includes sites and practices commonly associated with Islam/Sufism and Hinduism as spaces of shared culture. Most of the existing literature of Jammu and Kashmir is on Kashmir focusing mostly on topics such as politics, state, identity, conflict or violence. This book proposes to go beyond these works by delimiting the focus and area of the study to culture, society and religion. It explores the sites of religious pluralism and tolerance in the violence-ridden territory of Jammu and Kashmir. The chapters are mainly based on ethnographic data collected through qualitative methods like observation – participant and non-participant, case studies, in-depth interviews and oral history. The book is of interest to researchers, both faculty and graduate students, in the areas of sociology of religion, social anthropology, religious studies, cultural studies, Sufism, shrines and deity worship in South Asia.
Author : Baburao Shravan Baviskar
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9788125042648
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (426 download)
Download or read book Understanding Indian Society written by Baburao Shravan Baviskar and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Dipankar Gupta
Publisher : Penguin Books India
ISBN 13 : 9780140297065
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (97 download)
Download or read book Interrogating Caste written by Dipankar Gupta and published by Penguin Books India. This book was released on 2000 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The caste system has conventionally been perceived by scholars as a hierarchy based on the binary opposition of purity and pollution. Challenging this position, leading sociologist Dipankar Gupta argues that any notion of a fixed hierarchy is arbitrary and valid only from the perspective of the individual castes. The idea of difference, and not hierarchy, determines the tendency of each caste to keep alive its discrete nature and this is also seen to be true of the various castes which occupy the same rank in the hierarchy. It is, in fact, the mechanics of power, both economic and political, that set the ground rules for caste behaviour, which also explains how traditionally opposed caste groups find it possible to align in the contemporary political scenario. With the help of empirical evidence from states like Bihar, Maharashtra and Uttar Pradesh, the author illustrates how any presumed correlations between caste loyalties and voting patterns are in reality quite invalid. Provocative and finely argued, Interrogating Caste is a remarkable work that provides fresh insight into caste as a social, political and economic reality.
Author : M. Senthil Kumar
Publisher : Pearson Education India
ISBN 13 : 9352862643
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (528 download)
Download or read book Indian Society : For Civil Services Main Examination GS Paper I written by M. Senthil Kumar and published by Pearson Education India. This book was released on 2017-08-30 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides an in-depth insight into the Indian society and the varied social issues it is currently faced with. While serving as a foundation and ready-reference resource, the book covers all important topics such as the role of Women in Indian Society, Population, Poverty, Urbanization and related issues of Communalism and Social Empowerment. It aims to not only equip an aspirant with all the relevant information required for scoring high marks but also help the future policy-makers to have a better understanding of what Indian society needs.
Author : CN Shankar Rao
Publisher : S. Chand Publishing
ISBN 13 : 8121924030
Total Pages : 703 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (219 download)
Download or read book Sociology of Indian Society written by CN Shankar Rao and published by S. Chand Publishing. This book was released on 2004-09 with total page 703 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The revision comes 10 years after the first edition and completely overhauls the text not only in terms of look and feel but also content which is now contemporary while also being timeless. A large number of words are explained with the help of examples and their lineage which helps the reader understand their individual usage and the ways to use them on the correct occasion.
Author : John C. Hopkins
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351487809
Total Pages : 523 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (514 download)
Download or read book Structure and Change in Indian Society written by John C. Hopkins and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-11-13 with total page 523 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recent theoretical and methodological innovations in the anthropological analysis of South Asian societies have introduced distinctive modifications in the study of Indian social structure and social change. This book, reporting on twenty empirical studies of Indian society conducted by outstanding scholars, reflects these trends not only with reference to Indian society itself, but also in terms of the relevance of such trends to an understanding of social change more generally.The contributors demonstrate the adaptive changes experienced by the studied groups in particular villages, towns, cities, and regions. The authors view the basic social units of joint family, caste, and village not as structural isolates, but as intimately connected with one another and with other social units through social and cultural networks of various kinds that incorporate the social units into the complex structure of Indian civilization. Within this broadened conception of social structure, these studies trace the changing relations of politics, economics, law, and language to the caste system.Showing that the caste system is dynamic, with upward and downward mobility characterizing it from pre-British times to the present, the studies suggest that the modernizing forces which entered the system since independence--parliamentary democracy, universal suffrage, land reforms, modern education, urbanization, and industrial technology--provided new opportunities and paths to upward mobility, but did not radically alter the system. The chapters in this book show that the study of Indian society reveals novel forms of social structure change. They introduce methods and theories that may well encourage social scientists to extend the study of change in Indian society to the study of change in other areas.
Author : Milton B. Singer
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9780202369334
Total Pages : 532 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (693 download)
Download or read book Structure and Change in Indian Society written by Milton B. Singer and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recent theoretical and methodological innovations in the anthropological analysis of South Asian societies have introduced distinctive modifications in the study of Indian social structure and social change. This book, reporting on twenty empirical studies of Indian society conducted by outstanding scholars, reflects these trends not only with reference to Indian society itself, but also in terms of the relevance of such trends to an understanding of social change more generally. The contributors demonstrate the adaptive changes experienced by the studied groups in particular villages, towns, cities, and regions. The authors view the basic social units of joint family, caste, and village not as structural isolates, but as intimately connected with one another and with other social units through social and cultural networks of various kinds that incorporate the social units into the complex structure of Indian civilization. Within this broadened conception of social structure, these studies trace the changing relations of politics, economics, law, and language to the caste system. Showing that the caste system is dynamic, with upward and downward mobility characterizing it from pre-British times to the present, the studies suggest that the modernizing forces which entered the system since independence--parliamentary democracy, universal suffrage, land reforms, modern education, urbanization, and industrial technology--provided new opportunities and paths to upward mobility, but did not radically alter the system. The chapters in this book show that the study of Indian society reveals novel forms of social structure change. They introduce methods and theories that may well encourage social scientists to extend the study of change in Indian society to the study of change in other areas. Milton Singer (1912-1994) was Paul Klapper Professor of Social Sciences and professor of anthropology at the University of Chicago. He was a fellow of the Academy of Arts and Sciences. He was also chosen as a distinguished lecturer by the American Anthropological Association and was the recipient of the Distinguished Scholar Award of the Association for Asian Studies. Bernard S. Cohn (1918-2003) was Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at the University of Chicago. He was widely known for his work on India during the British colonial period and wrote many books on the subject of India including India: The Social Anthropology of a Civilization (1971), An Anthropologist among the Historians and Other Essays (1987), and Colonialism and its Forms of Knowledge (1996).
Author : Yogesh Atal
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 594 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Understanding Indian Society written by Yogesh Atal and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Feschrfit honoring Prof. S. C. Dube on his 70th birthday; comprises contributed research papers on various aspects of Indian social conditions.
Author : Subodh Gupta
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780955688256
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (882 download)
Download or read book Understanding Indian Culture and Bridging the Communication Gap written by Subodh Gupta and published by . This book was released on 2008-06-01 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a practical book on Indians psychology, their culture and how to bridge the communication gap between India and the West. It is based on real life experiences and will help you to become more effective while doing business with Indians. About the author: Mr Subodh Gupta born and brought up in India, has worked for about 12 years as an Entrepreneur, an Engineer, a guest professor to various MBA schools, a training consultant for The Times of India Group in India and about 3 years in the UK as a freelance trainer and consultant.
Author : Tharaileth Koshy Oommen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 27 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (314 download)
Download or read book Understanding Indian Society written by Tharaileth Koshy Oommen and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 27 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Nicholas B. Dirks
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400840945
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)
Download or read book Castes of Mind written by Nicholas B. Dirks and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2011-10-09 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When thinking of India, it is hard not to think of caste. In academic and common parlance alike, caste has become a central symbol for India, marking it as fundamentally different from other places while expressing its essence. Nicholas Dirks argues that caste is, in fact, neither an unchanged survival of ancient India nor a single system that reflects a core cultural value. Rather than a basic expression of Indian tradition, caste is a modern phenomenon--the product of a concrete historical encounter between India and British colonial rule. Dirks does not contend that caste was invented by the British. But under British domination caste did become a single term capable of naming and above all subsuming India's diverse forms of social identity and organization. Dirks traces the career of caste from the medieval kingdoms of southern India to the textual traces of early colonial archives; from the commentaries of an eighteenth-century Jesuit to the enumerative obsessions of the late-nineteenth-century census; from the ethnographic writings of colonial administrators to those of twentieth-century Indian scholars seeking to rescue ethnography from its colonial legacy. The book also surveys the rise of caste politics in the twentieth century, focusing in particular on the emergence of caste-based movements that have threatened nationalist consensus. Castes of Mind is an ambitious book, written by an accomplished scholar with a rare mastery of centuries of Indian history and anthropology. It uses the idea of caste as the basis for a magisterial history of modern India. And in making a powerful case that the colonial past continues to haunt the Indian present, it makes an important contribution to current postcolonial theory and scholarship on contemporary Indian politics.
Author : A.M. Shah
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136197710
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (361 download)
Download or read book The Structure of Indian Society written by A.M. Shah and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book has a collection of ten articles written during 1982–2007 and an exhaustive introduction on the structural features of Indian society, that is, the enduring social groups, institutions and processes, such as caste, tribe, sect, rural-urban relations, etc. The book views Indian society in contemporary as well as historical perspective, based on a wealth of field research as well as archival material. The book focuses on the significance of village studies in transforming the understanding of Indian society and also shows how urban centres have been useful in shaping society. Taking a critical look at the prevailing thinking on various structures and institutions, the author uses insights derived from his comprehensive studies of kinship, marriage, religion, and grassroots politics in advancing their studies. He points out the strengths and weaknesses of these structures and institutions and the direction in which they are changing with respect to modern time. As against the overwhelming emphasis on the hierarchical dimension of caste, this book focuses on its horizontal dimension, that is, every caste’s population spread over villages and towns in an area, its internal organization and differentiation based on networks of kinship, marriage, patron-client relationship, and role of endogamy versus hypergamy in maintaining its boundaries. The tribes are also seen in the same perspective, emphasizing the tribe-caste homology. Finally, the book provides information on important issues like policy of reservations, the reliability of censuses and surveys of castes and tribes, removal of untouchability, growth of organized religion and secularization.
