The book is primarily a self-presentation of Indian sociologists and their recent theoretical and empirical research endeavours. Not only it provides an opportunity for diagnosing what Indian sociologists have identified as the most important issues for various social communities, but also helps reproduce the idiomatic interpretation of modernization in the colonial and post-colonial contexts. And, last but not least, it offers a convenient point of departure for reflection on Western Europe and its international role-modelling function.
The book deserves to be read carefully, not only because it provides an excellent review of universality, rationality and diversity in post-colonial India but also because it shows that it makes sense to translate the western world of modernization into the categories and images of Indian capitalist modernization. By approaching the determinants, mechanisms and consequences of this translation in contemporary India so comprehensively and insightfully, it directs our attention towards European modernization rationale and helps take stock of European sociological achievements. And, it is particularly valuable for Polish sociology and sociologists to have a better view of the Western European case of translation of capitalist models of transformation vis-à-vis the European context and the global context.
Contents
1 Society and Sociology in India: Some Reflections / ISHWAR MODI
2 Sociology of India, Sociology in India, Indian Sociology / JANUSZ MUCHA
3 Modernization and Its Contradictions: Contemporary Social Changes in India / YOGENDRA SINGH
4 The Indian Jåti and the European Nation: The Twins-Unlike Concepts of Mega-Tribal Level / M. KRZYSZTOF BYRSKI
5 Decolonization and the Entangled Histories of Science and Philosophy in India / DHRUV RAINA
6 State and Democracy in India / PRATAP BHANU MEHTA
7 Rethinking Civil Society and the Public Spheres: Pathways of Indian Modernities in Global Conversations / ANANTA KUMAR GIRI
8 Is there Today Caste System or There is Only Caste in India? / K.L. SHARMA
9 Between Exclusion and Exclusivity: Dalits in Contemporary India / PARAMJIT S. JUDGE
10 Indian ‘Modernity’ and ‘Tradition’: A Gender Analysis / MAITRAYEE CHAUDHURI
11 Technology Growth in India: Some Important Concerns / DURU ARUN KUMAR
12 Story of the Clashing Images of the Country: The Case of India’s Image at Home and in Poland / PIOTR K˜ODKOWSKI
13 Globalization, ICT Revolution and Socio-cultural Changes in India: Sociological Explorations / BINAY KUMAR PATTNAIK
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