01076nam a22001217a 4500020001800000082001900018245006800037260004500105300001900150520073700169650003000906700001800936  a9780199467020  a301.0954bDOI-  aDoing sociology in India:bgenealogies, locations and practices  aNew DelhibOxford University Pressc2016  axxxviii, 328p.  aThis important volume on the history of sociology in India locates scholars, scholarship, theories, perspectives, and practices of the discipline in different cities and regions of the country over a century. It argues that this history is enmeshed in political projects of constructing a ‘society’, which took place as a result of colonialism and dominant nationalism. The book affirms the existence of both strong and weak traditions of scholarship in India and underscores three processes that have aided this development at various points of time: reflexive interrogation of received scholarship; probing ideal types of theories within classrooms, and questioning existing debates on society and its language by the public.
  aSociologyvHistoryzIndia  aPatel, Sujata