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Mind and society: from Indian studies to general sociology

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Oxford University Press New Delhi 2019Description: xix, 326 p. Includes indexISBN:
  • 9780199495986
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 301.0954 U2M4
Summary: One of the country’s most eminent sociologists, J.P.S. Uberoi inaugurated a unique approach in the study of Indian sociology and social anthropology. He makes a case for a form of independent Indian sociology in relation to the principal philosophies and sociological theories of the Western world, by adopting Gandhi’s plea for swaraj in thought. This volume brings together eighteen papers by Uberoi which highlight his pioneering thought. Originally written between 1968 and 2013, these papers are divided thematically into three groups. The first examines the eternal political war of imperialism versus nationalism as it related to the academic pursuit of knowledge in the university. The second group begins with questions of social science and philosophy and concludes by discussing the working lives of the industrial worker (in the West) and the household farmer (in the East). The third group explores the project of finding grounds for a concept of a plural vernacular Indian modernity. The volume represents an emphatic statement by the author that the time has come for India to bid for its place in the universal free world of the intellect. https://india.oup.com/product/mind-and-society-9780199495986?
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Table of contents

List of Figures and Tables
Foreword
Khalid Tyabji
Part I - OF UNIVERSAL KNOWLEDGE
Science and Swaraj
Swaraj in Ideas Of God, Man, and Nature
Right, Left, and Centre in The Sciences of Nature
A Social Lesson for Science
Ali Baquer, Ashis Nandy, J.P.S. Uberoi, H.Y. Mohan Ram, and Norman Reynolds
The Sciences and The Arts in the University
The Student Question
Part II - OF MODERN WORLD CULTURE
Mind and the World in Modern European Sociology
New Outlines of Structural Sociology, 1945–70
Towards a New Sociolinguistics with Patricia Uberoi
On Civil Society
The Three Lives of Things in a Post-modern Economy
Work Study and the Industrial Worker in Post-war Britain and the West
Marxism of Labour or Property?
Part III - OF THE INDIAN MODERNITY
Oriental Studies and Current Affairs of Sikhism
Sikhism and Islam: A Structural Analysis
Religion, Civil Society, and the State In India
Martyrdom versus Kingdom
Metaphysics of the Indian Modernity: The Theory of the Name
Index
About the Author and Editor

One of the country’s most eminent sociologists, J.P.S. Uberoi inaugurated a unique approach in the study of Indian sociology and social anthropology. He makes a case for a form of independent Indian sociology in relation to the principal philosophies and sociological theories of the Western world, by adopting Gandhi’s plea for swaraj in thought. This volume brings together eighteen papers by Uberoi which highlight his pioneering thought.
Originally written between 1968 and 2013, these papers are divided thematically into three groups. The first examines the eternal political war of imperialism versus nationalism as it related to the academic pursuit of knowledge in the university. The second group begins with questions of social science and philosophy and concludes by discussing the working lives of the industrial worker (in the West) and the household farmer (in the East). The third group explores the project of finding grounds for a concept of a plural vernacular Indian modernity. The volume represents an emphatic statement by the author that the time has come for India to bid for its place in the universal free world of the intellect.

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