Bringing together original papers by anthropologists, sociologists and historians, this volume represents a response to the relative neglect in recent sociological research of the social processes and consequences of industrialization in India. It point to the continued disjunction between the study of industrial labour and the ‘traditional’ concerns of Indian sociology, which tend to emphasise the cultural particularity of India, and advocates a ...
Institutions and Inequalities: Essays in Honour of Andre Beteille
