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Critical Themes in Indian Sociology

First Edition

Edited by:

Sanjay Srivastava - Professor of Sociology, Institute of Economic Growth, New Delhi
Yasmeen Arif - Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Delhi
Janaki Abraham - Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Delhi.

Other Titles in:
Sociology (General) | South Asia Studies

November 2018 | 500 pages | SAGE Publications Pvt. Ltd

Critical Themes in Indian Sociology brings together the writings of a number of scholars—both well established and younger, in India and in different parts of the world—on various themes that express the richness and diversity that defines sociological scholarship on India. The book reflects changes in scholarship over time and charts out new subjects and methods for the study of social life in India. Commemorating the 50 plus years since Contributions to Indian Sociology was first published, this book is a tribute to a journal that has sustained an internationally acclaimed and rigorous sociological engagement with India. Comprising a wide range of themes such as village, city, class, caste, politics, gender, sexuality, media, food and education, this book presents a concise, yet in-depth sense of a sociological view of India today.

Introduction

Thomas Blom Hansen

The State as an Ethnographic Object

Roma Chatterji

The Folk and the Making of an Indian Aesthetic

Ronie Parciack

Religious Violence: A Sociological Perspective

Jacob Copeman and Johannes Quack

Contemporary Religiosities

Tulasi Srinivas

Artful Living: New Religious Movements in and of South Asia

Surinder S. Jodhka

Villages and Villagers in Contemporary India

Mekhala Krishnamurthy

Fields, Markets and Agricultural Commodities

Lawrence Cohen

The Nation, De-duplicated

Nicholas Nisbett and Aditi Bhonagiri

Internet Cultures

Meenakshi Thapan

Schooling and Culture: Bringing Schools into Sociology

Carol Upadhya

Cultures of Work in India’s ‘New Economy’

Geert de Neve

The Sociology of Labour in India

Suryakant Waghmore

Hierarchy without System? Why Civility Matters in the Study of Caste

Lucia Michelutti

Caste and the Anthropology of Democracy

Raka Ray

‘The Middle Class’ and the Middle Classes

Alpa Shah

Tribe, Egalitarian Values, Autonomy and the State

Rajni Palriwala

Gendering Sociology, a Sociology of Gender or Studying Women?: Some Reflections

Perveez Mody

Contemporary Intimacies

Shalini Grover

Conjugality and Marital Dissolution in Historical Perspective

Srimati Basu

Gender and Law

Joseph S. Alter

Masculinities and Culture

Renu Addlakha

The Sociology of Disability: Conceptual Ethnography of an Analytical Category in India

Paul Boyce and Rohit K. Dasgupta

Alternating Sexualities: Sociology and Queer Critiques in India

Sarah Lamb

Ageing, Ambivalent Modernities and the Pursuit of Value in India

Amita Baviskar

New Cultures of Food Studies

Sara Dickey

Cinematic Cultures

Margit van Wessel

The Sociology of Consumption in India: Towards a New Agenda

Smriti Srinivas

The Challenge of Urban Space

Rita Brara

Feet on the Ground, Eyes on the Horizon: The Anthropology of Environment and Climate Change

V. Sujatha

Beyond Medical Pluralism: Medicine, Power and Social Legitimacy in India

Index

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