Doing Sociology in India: Genealogies, Locations, and Practices

By Sujata Patel

This volume debates the different ways in which ideas, practices, and traditions of sociology grew, were organized, and institutionalized in India from the mid-nineteenth century till present times. It facilitates, in a small way, an understanding of the histories of the discipline, while critically examining their origin and growth, their impact, and their limitations. The interplay of three themes - time, space, and power - structures the arguments in this book. The essays in this collection highlight two separate but connected dominant positions that have structured the formation of sociological traditions in India-colonialism and its practices, and ideologies of nationalism and notions of nation and nationhood.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019807011X
• ISBN13: 9780198070115
• Release Date: May 2011
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.23 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.7" x 8.7"