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Week 1: Introduction to the course: Theoretical and methodological perspectives within sociology and social anthropology. Week 2: Historical background of the study of Indian society. Colonialism, Anthropology and emergence of sociology in India. Week 3: Orientalism, Indology and knowledge production: Critique.
In this unit, you will learn about the: arious approaches to studying Indian society and culture; and evolutionary, h. tional approaches to study Indian society. 1.0 INTRODUCTION Understanding Indian Society and its culture wa. and is a riddle for the students of anthropology and sociology. With more than eight religious beliefs, hundreds of ...
unit - 1PersPectives on the study of indian societyPaper. 02 concerns itself with the study of Indian society. This chapter helps understand various perspectives and approaches adopted by t. sociologists to understand Indian society.indologyIndology.
- Entry of The British Colonizers
- The Orientalists
- The Missionary
- The Administrative
- Census
- Village
When the Britishers conquered India and began to settle here permanently, it was felt that there was an urgent need to gather information for administrative purposes and rule over the population. From 1760 onwards, the British officials aimed to accumulate a systematic knowledge of Indian society. Three major traditions of approaches to Indian soci...
Before the middle of the 18th century, there was not much information about Indian society. After the post-Plassey generation, Sanskrit and the vernacular language began to emerge, which in turn allowed the Britishers to formulate the history of India that we know today (Cohn, 1987, pp-141). Alexander Dow, an officer in the East India Company, was ...
The Missionary view developed after the orientalist point of view. Charles Grant was the first missionary. He believed that the caste system, legal system, government, and the Brahmans, who were the dominant group, were all the cause of the degraded state of the Hindus. The missionaries believed that the nation could get better and flourish by erad...
Around 1757 to 1785, the East India Company sought to develop an administrative system that would allow them to maintain law and order in India. In order to do so, the Britishers had to study Indian society afresh once again. They had to gather knowledge about how the internal political structure worked. The British administrative officials used th...
Britishers, while collecting data for the census, saw caste as a ‘thing’, an entity that was concrete and measurable and had definable characteristics such as endogamy, commensality rules, and fixed occupation. To make their task easy, the administrators clubbed many castes together so that they could be done with one grouping and jump to the next ...
In the early 19th century, another official view of Indian society was also being developed simultaneously with caste, the view of India as a land of ‘village republics’ (Cohn, 1987, pp-158). The village community was thought to be an unchanging body of co-sharers of the land and its produce. The economy was self-sufficient, and they had very littl...
This module discusses Dr. B. R Ambedkar’s analysis of the study of Indian society, referred to as ‘non-Brahmin’ approach. This approach is based on the idea that linkages between ‘knowledge’ and power are real and its impacts are what get presented as ‘reality/truth’ with regard to society. The crucial question embedded within ...
Feb 13, 2019 · Abstract. Initially, Indian sociology was influenced by colonialism and indology. After Independence, Indian sociology moved towards indigenisation on the one hand and critical examination of the Western theories, concepts and methods of study on the other. Indigenisation and use of regional texts, sources and observations weakened the Western ...
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1. She was associated with ICSSR in different capacities: as Senior Fellow, Director (Sociology) and National Fellow. In women’s studies, her journey started with her nomination as a member of the National Committee on the Status of Women, Government of India which produced the landmark report Towards Equality.
