Andre Beteille
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For forty years, Andre Beteille taught sociology at the Delhi School of Economics. This collection of essays brings together some of his basic concerns as a teacher and scholar. They include the nature and scope of sociology, and its relations with other disciplines such as anthropology, economics and political science. The book as a whole is animated by a very distinctive conception of sociology as an intellectual pursuit. Two of Beteille’s main concerns are ...
First published in 1965, this text has since acquired the status of a classic in Indian sociology. Andre Beteille studied the changing patterns of stratification in a South Indian village in an intensive field study spread over ten months. This book recounts the gradual transformation of a social system that, till the end of the nineteenth century, was structured primarily on distinctions of caste—between the Brahmins, the middle-level ...
Andre Beteille has for close to four decades contributed richly and incisively to the study of equality and inequality. Although based on the Indian experience, his work is animated by a broad comparative perspective. In these essays, he has sought to illuminate the Indian experience through the use of general concepts and methods, while extending those concepts and methods through an examination of the Indian reality. The present collection addresses issues of ...
This volume brings together the author’s recent essays on institutions, civil society, and democracy written from a comparative perspective but with India at the centre of attention. The essays are devoted to changing norms and values and emphasize their inherent tensions, oppositions, and contradictions. In exploring the stresses and strains of Indian democracy, Beteille exposes the disjunction between political ideals and social constraints. He connects ...
Though-provoking and insightful essays on the state of the nation focusing on social and political realities which will provoke debate for years to come. This book begins with the subject of the individual's quest for identity. In articles that describe the ways in which intellectuals relate to ideologies within the framework of academia. The focus then shifts to social justice, and Beteille outlines the contradictions inherent in the Indian context between the ...
One of the pioneers of sociological studies in India, Professor Andr? B?teille has, over the past four decades, contributed a series of topical and stimulating articles to various newspapers. Some of these articles were collected in the book Chronicles of Our Time, published a few years ago. Ideology and Social Science is a new and riveting collection of Professor B?teille’s writings on Indian society, politics and culture. The fifty articles in this book cover ...
Marxism has played a crucial role-directly and indirectly--in the development of social analysis in India. This collection of essays by Andre Beteille addresses the contemporary significance of Marxism in the study of society, polity, and economy. The problems of inequality, class, and conflict in India are discussed with special reference to its agrarian social structure. Marxism has often been identified with what is described as the 'class approach' to ...