01505nam a2200169Ia 450000500170000000800410001702000180005808200210007610000200009724500830011726000460020030000150024652010140026165000140127565000170128965000290130620261005161139.0260603s9999||||xx |||||||||||||| ||und||  a9780670086160  223a361.3092 BET  aBeteille, Andre 0aSunlight On the Gardenb: A Story of Childhood and Youthc/ André Béteille  aNew Delhib: Penguin Viking Indiac, 2012  a293 pages,  aAndre Beteille's memoir, spanning his childhood, his schooldays and his early years as a sociologist, encompasses many worlds--that of colonial Chandannagar, where he spent his early years; of Patna and Calcutta where he went to school; and of his college days where he started off as a physicist and then turned to sociology--a field in which he was to win international renown. There are unforgettable descriptions of his colonial childhood and his two grandmothers, one French and the other Bengali; and of momentous events he lived through such as famine, communal riots and Partition. Equally compelling are his portraits of his neighborhood, school friends, tachers and Calcutta's intellectual stars, among them Sukhamoy Chakravarty and Amartya Sen. With its lucid and eloquent prose infused with acute sociological observations and insights into family relationships, childhood and adolescence, caste, class and community, this is a book that illumines the evolution of a brilliant teacher and scholar.  aSociology  aSociologists  aSociology & anthropology