Yogesh Atal
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In the 1950s, when Indian Sociology stepped into the terrain of village studies, Brij Raj Chauhan – the founder Professor of Sociology in Rajasthan – initiated research in rural Rajasthan. Located close to the capital of the princely state of Mewar and locally governed by Rajput chiefs appointed by the Maharana, the village Ranawaton-ki-Sadri was chosen by B.R. Chauhan for doing the ethnography of a small community using an emerging paradigm for such ...
This book provides a perspective for viewing the increasing levels of corruption in the higher echelons of politics and bureaucracy in post-Independence India, and the limits of popular struggles and legislative/administrative measures to combat it. Looking at the phenomenon as ‘deviance’ from norms and a systemic dysfunctionality, it argues that it can be resisted by effective strategies of mass mobilization under charismatic leaders.
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A set of about a dozen of studies and surveys, specially commissioned by ICSSR (Indian Council of Social Science Research), this book encapsulates the progress of research in certain neglected segments in the social sciences. The survey begins with an examination of the historical background of tribes, rural and agrarian studies, political sociology, and urban sociology. It proceeds to study the role of caste and caste organisations in local and national ...
Recent reviews of past development efforts have acknowledged the persistence of poverty in all the countries irrespective of their economic development. The World Summit for Social Development made the commitment to eradicate this scourge and invited all countries to join hands in the struggle against poverty. This has occasioned a rethink on the entire issue of poverty. The essays contained in this book, written by India’s leading sociologist ...
Indian Sociology: From Where to Where is a collection of essays written by a leading Indian sociologist during his long career as a teacher and research administrator, both in India and abroad. The reader will find, at one place, the writings of this seminal author on the growth and development of Indian sociology. These essays not only chronicle the developments in the discipline, but also put them in the perspective of sociology of sociology and in the context ...
This anthology, consisting of fourteen essays written by students of Professor Brij Raj Chauhan, has been prepared to honour him for his outstanding contribution in enriching Indian sociology for all these years. The contributing authors not only represent a wide variety of disciplines like sociology, anthropology, political science and international relations but include civil servants as well. Though having disjointed themes, the papers try to reflect upon some ...
Changing Indian Society, Panned by India’s leading social scientist of international renown, encapsulates the enormous empirical and statistical data to present a profile of Indian society as a multicultural entity composed of different ethnic origins, various religions, and belonging to a variety of speech communities, and yet bonded together as a nation, sharing a common polity and economy. Written simply and without jargon, in a style intelligible to a lay ...
This Festschrift, in the honour of Professor R.S. Gautam, brings together essays as diverse as state of economy, social sector, governance and political frontier. Despite variations, the common string that binds the various presentations is the understanding on developments taking place in the economy, polity and society in the country. The book traces the board trends emanating in grassroots governance, direction of economic changes and the political frontier of ...
Written by a renowned sociologist and a former UNESCO functionary, this collection of essays provides a social science perspective to investigate the complex relationship between education and development. Education is called upon to provide the tools to the people to facilitate their adjustment with the new dynamism rather than to succumb to despair and disappointment. Treating education as a sub-system of the wider society, the Author emphasizes the need to ...
Social Sciences in India have acquired the status of a profession. Although they are relatively recent, their achievements have been remarkable. The papers collected in this volume relate to some aspects of the growth of the profession of social sciences in India. Written by one of the distinguished and leading sociologists of the country Professor Yogesh Atal, these essays convey an insider-view of the profession. The growth of the profession and the general ...
BUILDING A NATION is a collection of ESSAYS ON INDIA written by Professor YOGESH ATAL, a sociologist of international renown. The conceptual framework of Insulators and Apertures that Professor Atal developed to analyse the dynamics of nation building in his famous Gandhi Memorial Lecture, delivered at the University of London in 1972, provides a connecting thread between the essays dwelling on different aspects of the Indian Society. Professor Atal forcefully ...
The book is a collection of seminal essays on the sociology of communication, penned by India's noted social scientist. Written for different audiences over a period of time, these essays elaborate some of the key concepts introduced by the author in the area of sociology of communication. The book proffers analysis of the impact of the ongoing communication revolution in sociological terms in the context of processes of modernization and globalization, and ...