Historical Sociology In India - 9780815376521

This book is a comprehensive study of historical sociology and its development, especially in the Indian context. It looks at the works of Indian sociologists and analyses their approaches in terms of book-view (normative) and field-view (descriptive) history. The volume: ¿ critically appraises reports of empirical surveys conducted during early colonial rule ¿ including those by H. T. Colebrooke, Francis Buchanan, William Adam; ¿ engages with the works of sociologists such as M. N. Srinivas, Ramkrishna Mukherjee, Louis Dumont, Nicholas Dirks, Bernard Cohn, Yogendra Singh, D. N. Dhanagare, A. M Shah, T. K. Oommen, among others; and ¿ shows how historical perspective has been adopted in understanding aspects of Indian society ¿ villages, castes, traditions, socio-cultural change, education, peasants and their movements, etc. Presenting an alternative idea of social reality, this book will deeply interest students and scholars of sociology, social theory, and social history.

• | Author: Hetukar Jha
• | Publisher: Routledge India
• | Publication Date: Nov 28, 2017
• | Number of Pages: 144 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 0815376529
• | ISBN-13: 9780815376521