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Indian Sociologists

Madhya Pradesh Board · Class 11 · Sociology

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1. Growth of Sociology in India

  • Formal university teaching of sociology in India began in 1919 at the University of Bombay.
  • Calcutta and Lucknow universities began sociology and anthropology programmes in the 1920s.
  • Indian sociology developed in a colonial setting, so early scholars had to ask what sociology should mean in India.
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2. L.K. Ananthakrishna Iyer and Sarat Chandra Roy

  • L.K. Ananthakrishna Iyer was a pioneer of social anthropology in India and a self-taught anthropologist.
  • He began as a clerk, then became a school and college teacher in Cochin.
  • In 1902, he was asked by the Dewan of Cochin to assist with an ethnographic survey.
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3. G.S. Ghurye: Institutional Builder and Caste Studies

  • G.S. Ghurye was born on 12 December 1893 in Malvan in the Konkan region.
  • He is considered the founder of institutionalised sociology in India.
  • He headed the Bombay University sociology department for 35 years.
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4. Ghurye on Tribes, Caste, and Race

  • Herbert Risley argued that caste originated in race on the basis of physical measurements.
  • Ghurye believed Risley's Aryan and non-Aryan thesis was broadly true only for northern India.
  • He argued that in much of India, racial mixing had occurred for a long time.

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