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This volume is a compilation of sixteen research articles and
exegetical essays by N. Jayaram. The six chapters in Part One deal with the
legacy of sociology in India as an ‘uncertain transplant’ from Western Europe.
They reflect on the origin and development of sociology over one hundred years,
the challenges it faced and continues to face both as an academic discipline
and as a profession. The ten chapters in Part Two are lectures delivered or
essays written as tributes to the memory of some of the masters who have shaped
the development of the discipline in the country. The introduction strings
together the chapters by highlighting their theme and the context in which the
text of the chapters was originally prepared, presented, and published.
THE
DISCIPLINE AND THE PROFESSION: CHALLENGES AND RESPONSES
The Captive Mind Syndrome in Indian
Sociology
The ‘Bombay School’ and Urban
Sociology in India
Sociology in Karnataka: The Formation
and Decline of a Discipline
The Golden Jubilee and Beyond: Reflections
on the ‘Profession’
Sociological Bulletin at Sixty: The
Biography and Meta-Analysis of a Journal
A Partial Memoir: Conversation with
Manish Thakur
TRIBUTES
TO THE MASTERS
Mysore Narasimhachar Srinivas
(1916–1999)
Govind Sadashiv Ghurye (1893–1983)
Yogendra Singh (1932–2020)
Radhakamal Mukerjee (1889–1968)
Ramkrishna Mukherjee (1917–2015)
Debiprasad Chattopadhyaya (1918–1993)
Madhav Sadashiv Gore (1921–2010)
John Charles Caldwell (1928–2016)
Partha Nath Mukherji (1940–2021)
Satish Saberwal (1933–2010)
N. Jayaram retired as Professor of Research Methodology at the
Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai. He had earlier taught sociology at
Bangalore University and Goa University. He was Visiting Professor of Indian
Studies at The University of the West Indies, Trinidad; Fellow of the Indian
Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla; Visiting Professor of Sociology at
Ambedkar University Delhi and the National Law School of India University,
Bengaluru; and Visiting Research Mentor in Sociology and Social Work at Christ
University, Bengaluru. He is the recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award
conferred by the Indian Sociological Society.
Jayaram’s recent publications include Understanding Social
Dynamics in South Asia: Essays in Memory of Ramkrishna Mukherjee (co-edited
with Partha Nath Mukherji and Bhola Nath Ghosh); Caste Matters in Public
Policy: Issues and Perspectives (co-edited with Rahul Choragudi and Sony
Pellissery); From Indians in Trinidad to Indo-Trinidadians: The Making of a
Girmitiya Diaspora; Sociological Theory and Research Methods: A Study in the
Philosophy of the Social Sciences; and The Sociology of Émile Durkheim:
Understanding the Relation between Individual and Society.
