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  1. egyankosh.ac.in › bitstream › 123456789/90300/1UNIT 1 UNDERSTANDING INDIAN Understanding Indian ... - eGyanKosh

    Understanding Indian Society and its culture was and is a riddle for the students of anthropology and sociology. With more than eight religious beliefs, hundreds of languages, and caste groups that are situated in various geographical and climatic terrains, India truly presents a challenge for those who try to understand its society and culture.

  2. www.jstor.org › stable › 4409380Indian Anthropology and Sociology - JSTOR

    Jun 10, 2000 · true that sociology and anthropology in India have been significantly shaped by theories and scholars of the west, local influences - theoretical, institutional, and national - have also played a major role in shaping the disciplines. It is this indi-genous context, the nexus between know-ledge, institutions and practices in the life

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  4. ebooks.inflibnet.ac.in › socp4 › chapterSociology in India: Colonialism, Anthropology and Sociology ...

    Sociologists in India have generally agreed that sociology has been introduced through colonialism and one needs to understand it within the larger debate of the social anthropology and sociology in India.

  5. ebooks.inflibnet.ac.in › socp4 › chapterTribes in India: From the Colonial era to the Twenty-first ...

    Introduction: This module aims towards an in -depth study of the tribal situation in India through a critical analysis of literature on tribes in a vertical time-frame from the colonial era to the twenty-first century.

  6. www.learncbse.in › ncert-solutions-for-class-11NCERT Solutions for Class 11 Sociology Chapter 5 Indian ...

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    Question 1. Mention Ghurye’s contribution to sociology. Answer: Ghurye is considered as founder of institutionalised sociology in India. 1. He created a generation of first class sociologist through his guidance. 2. His contribution in the field of castes, races, marriages, family and kinship system, rural urbanisation, demography, sociology of rel...

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    Question 1. Differentiate between the rural and the urban society. Answer: Rural society: They are usually small in size, having a low density of population. The dominant occupation is agriculture or agriculture related activities. There is a rigidity in the caste system. Lifestyle is simple, closeness is emphasized, dependence on religion is domin...

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    Question 1. Discuss the views expressed by Ghurye on the tribes. Answer: Ghurye emphasized that some anothropologists and the British administrators advocated a policy of isolation for the tribes. They mentioned many causes for it such as: First, the tribals were different from the non-tribals or Hindus. Secondly, tribals were the original inhabita...

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  7. journals.sagepub.com › doi › fullNation Building on the Margins: How the Anthropologists of ...

    Oct 15, 2020 · The contributions of the anthropologists towards nation building in the early years after independence of India is still an unexplored research agenda in the social sciences in general and anthropology and sociology in particular.

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  9. www.journals.uchicago.edu › doi › fullTheory and ethnography in the modern anthropology of India

    The anthropology of India contributed significantly to this shift. Before Independence, few professional Western anthropologists chose India as their field of research and many of those who did, studied tribal societies, as this seemed appropriate then (Rivers, von Fürer-Haimendorf, Mandelbaum).