M.N. Srinivas
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This is a paperback of a 1979 hardback which broke new ground in social investigation. There have, since, been other books on the experience of fieldwork, but this remains a much cited work. The eighteen essays in the volume describe the experiences of field research mainly in rural and urban India, and in complex organizations such as a hospital, a factory and a trade union. There are also accounts of work in Japan, Sri Lanka and New Mexico. This is an ...
'Sanskritization', 'dominant caste', and 'vote bank' describe important aspects of Indian politics, society, and social life in the new millennium. Interestingly, all three terms owe their genesis to one of India's most distinguished sociologists, M.N. Srinivas. Apart from his path-breaking work, Srinivas was instrumental in setting up two pioneering centres of sociology and social anthropology in India-at M.S. University, Baroda and ...
The work of M.N. Srinivas occupies a position of seminal importance in the development of sociology and social anthropology in India. Srinivas favoured the form of the essay, to the great advantage of his students. His essays are remarkable for their methodological rigour and accessibility. They are also noteworthy for their wide range; they bridge theory, method and fieldwork reality, and also cover a large area of this reality. Displaying an acute awareness of ...
Since its first publication, this book has been recommended reading for research methodology in the social sciences. This revised edition, which fulfils an enduring demand, contains a new preface that reviews the field since the publication of the first edition, answers critics, and emphasises the practical utility of field experience in the training of social scientists. Once considered to be the hallmark of social and cultural anthropology, intensive fieldwork ...
M.N. Srinivas' personal writings combine a novelist's imagination with the insight of a social scientist. The first three essays are autobiographical accounts of how he became a social anthropologist, of his job as the first Professor of sociology at Maharaja Sayajirao University at Baroda in 1951, and of moving from Delhi to Bangalore where he made his home. 'Bangalore as I see it is interesting both for its content and for the fact that it is Srinivas's only ...
The reissue of Professor Srinivas's classic work comes precisely fifty years after its first publication and fulfills an enduring demand from students and teachers of sociology and social anthropology in India This edition includes an introduction by Andre Beteille that traces and contextualizes Srinivas's findings, and arguments in the book, including the intellectual influences, which shaped his thinking both in it, and on Indian society as a whole. The study ...