Indian Sociologists
Madhya Pradesh Board · Class 11 · Sociology
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Overview
Indian sociology developed through two early pioneers and four later founders who shaped the discipline in different ways. The pioneers, L.K. Ananthakrishna Iyer and Sarat Chandra Roy, entered anthropology almost by accident and worked before sociology had formal university support. The later genera
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L.K. Ananthakrishna Iyer and Sarat Chandra Roy were self-taught or accidental anthropologists who worked before sociology had formal university depart
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G.S. Ghurye is known as the founder of institutionalised sociology in India. He headed the sociology department at Bombay University for 35 years, fou
Ghurye’s Caste and Race in India
Ghurye’s Caste and Race in India was based on his Cambridge dissertation and examined the relation between caste and race. Herbert Risley argued that
Ghurye opposed the protectionist view associated
Ghurye opposed the protectionist view associated with Verrier Elwin and British administrator-anthropologists. He described tribal communities as back
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D.P. Mukerji argued that Indian society had a strong and distinctive social system. He believed that sociology in India had to study living tradition,
Learning Objectives
- Understand how sociology began and grew in India
- Identify the contributions of the early pioneers of Indian anthropology
- Explain the role of G.S. Ghurye in institutionalising sociology
- Describe D.P. Mukerji’s ideas on tradition, change, and Indian society
- Explain A.R. Desai’s Marxist analysis of the state and nationalism
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