A. M. Shah

The Structure of Indian Society (eBook, PDF)

Then and Now

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book examines how Indian society has proliferated through an amalgamation of institutions and practices which has divided and united people across communities. This edition is a key text for students and scholars of sociology and social anthropology, political science, and South Asian studies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. April 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780429685231
• Artikelnr.: 56519722

Autorenporträt

A.M. Shah is former Professor of Sociology at the Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi, and National Fellow of the Indian Council of Social Science Research, New Delhi, India. Felicitated with the Lifetime Achievement Award by the Indian Sociological Society in 2009, he has also been the recipient of the Swami Pranavananda Award from the University Grants Commission, and the Distinguished Service Award from the University of Delhi. He has held fellowships at the University of Chicago; the Centre for Advanced Study in the Behavioural Sciences, Stanford; the Institute of Development Studies, Sussex, UK; and the University of New England, Australia. He has authored and edited many books, including The Household Dimension of the Family in India (1973); Division and Hierarchy (co-authored with I.P. Desai (1988); The Family in India: Critical Essays (1998); Exploring India's Rural Past (2002); The Writings of A. M. Shah: the Household and Family in India (an omnibus, 2014); and Sociology and History (2017). He has contributed extensively to academic journals and symposia, including ten articles in Gujarati. He has been honoured with a festschrift, Understanding Indian Society: Past and Present (2010), edited by B.S. Baviskar and Tulsi Patel.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. Caste in the 21st Century: From System to Elements 2.
Purity, Impurity, Untouchability: Then and Now 3. Sanskritization Revisited
4. Sects and Hindu Social Structure 5. The Rural-Urban Networks in India
6. The 'Dalit' Category and Its Differentiation 7. Can the Caste Census be
Reliable? 8. Division and Hierarchy: An Overview of Caste in Gujarat 9.
Untouchability, the Untouchables and Social Change in Gujarat 10. The
Tribes - So-called - of Gujarat: In the Perspective of Time 11. The Mirage
of a Casteless Society in India 12. A Government Programme to Train
Scheduled Caste Priests 13. The Village in the City, the City in the
Village 14. Myths, Rural and Urban