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020 _a9780199495986
028 _a:Raghav Books Private Limited
_b:A-184 Nand Gram Ghaziabad
_c:2117
_d:20/12/2020
028 _a: Raghav Books Private Limited
_b:A-184 Nand Gram Ghaziabad
_c: 1724
_d: 23/11/2024
082 _a301.0954 UBE
100 _aUberoi, J. P. Singh
245 _aMind and society
_b: from Indian studies to general sociology
_c/ J P Singh Uberoi
260 _aNew Delhi, India
_b : Oxford University Press,
_c2019.
300 _axix, 326p.
_c24cm.
365 _b1395
520 _aSeamless in approach and rigour of method and seated very much in the post-modern present, this book spans a wide spectrum of historical periods, cultures, religions, regions and politics. This is a reflection of the author's search for a theory of vernacular pluralism suitable for Indian society and modernity. The book has three sections. The first engages with the question of swaraj or independent nationalism versus internationalism in the context of knowledge, programmes of research and the university as a social institution. The essays are written to represent the author's viewpoint on the political conflict between imperialism and nationalism as it relates to the academic pursuit of knowledge in the university and the profession. The second group of essays comprises selected critical reflections on aspects of the modern Western world, academic, theoretical and practical, all here considered as inherently social, but remaining unexamined in our everyday life and practice. They begin with questions of social science and philosophy and conclude with a discussion on the working lives of the industrial worker (West) and the ecological household farmer (East). The third group of essays explores the original project of a vernacular Indian modernity in relation to the Hindu and Muslim cultures of medieval India and in the context of Sikhism as an example of Indian modernity. The thrust of this final section is to establish the ground for a concept of society in the vernacular usage, labour and language, rather than in the concept of 'tradition' as general social science and the Orientalist classicists have hitherto done.
650 _aSocial Sciences
650 _a Sociology & anthropology
650 _aSociology India
650 _aSociology.
650 _aCivil Society
650 _aWorld Culture
700 _aUberoi, J. P. Singh
700 _aTyabji, Khalid
942 _cBOOK
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