The nationalist-indigenous and colonial modernity: an assessment of two sociologists in India

Abstract This paper analyzes the work of two Indian sociologists who defined the contours of sociology in India in the immediate post-independence decades, M. N. Srinivas and A. R. Desai. It argues that their scholarship can be linked to sociology’s legacy as anthropology in India and its embeddedne...

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Main Author: Sujata Patel
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2021-01-01
Series:The Journal of Chinese Sociology
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s40711-020-00140-9