Themes in Social Stratification and Mobility : Essays in Honour of Prof. K.L. Sharma
Contents: Introduction. 1. Sociology and social revolution in India: challenges and responses/Yogendra Singh. 2. Civil society, state and communication/Dipankar Gupta. 3. Exclusion and inclusion: ethnicity and race relations in Trinidadian Indian Diaspora/Ravindra K. Jain. 4. Religious conversion and social mobility in India/S.M. Michael. 5. Non-Brahmanic perspective on Indian society/S.M. Dahiwale. 6. Asprashyeekaran-Dalitization through ages/Shyamlal. 7. The Hindi literary world and Dalit assertion: a western perspective/Heinz Werner Wessler. 8. Pride and prejudices in education: the shaping of Hierarchies/Rajiv Gupta. 9. Culture of hierarchy and power: local socio-historical perspectives -- Indian case study/D. Sundaram. 10. Class, status and gender: social stratification among tribes of India/S.L. Doshi. 11. Caste, class and ecology movements/Ranjita Mohanty. 12. Tribal family: towards structural mobility/P.C. Jain. 13. Raika Jati and its Dharmic order/Vinay Kumar Srivastava. 14. Jharkhand Movement, tribal social structure and Marxist Theory/Ajit K. Pandey. 15. A note on Talcott Parsons' "Pattern variables"/Arvind Kumar Agrawal. 16. Reflections and mobilizations: development as global responsibility/Ananta Kumar Giri. 17. Urban crisis in post-liberalization period: implications for urban industrial social stratification/Sanjay Mishra. 18. Socio-cultural construction of competence and professional Hierarchy/J.S. Gandhi. 19. Residential practices in the Public Sector Housing Stock of a Major Indian Metropolis: the case of DDA Flats in Delhi/Veronique Dupont. 20. On rural transformation/Ramkrishna Mukherjee. 21. Understanding continuity in Indian villages/Paramjit S. Judge. 22. Marginalization and return: Agrarian studies in India during the 1990s/Surinder S. Jodhka and Paul D'Souza. 23. Factionalism and district level politics in Rajasthan: a sociological study of factional politics in Udaipur District from 1954 to 1971/B.K. Nagla. 24. Brahmin, widow and businesswoman/Gerard Fussman. 25. Gender and disability management in rural Haryana/Nilika Mehrotra. 26. Young women: an emerging force in India/Renuka Singh. 27. Crystallization of the traditional pattern of stratification in India/Shrirama and Indra Deva. 28. Caste in contemporary India/Andre Beteille. 29. Occupational mobility among backward castes/Sunanda Pande. 30. Social inequalities in health and nutrition among children of Haryana/Madhu Nagla. 31. Religious violence in South Asia: limits of Majoritarian nation-building in a syncretic civilizational complex. Index.
"This volume offers an insightful understanding and analysis of issues related to social stratification, mobility, village community, urban life, tribal and peasant movements, gender relations, etc. in India in a broad theoretical and empirical perspective. Most of the articles are on structure, culture, process and dialectics in post-independent India. Contours and dynamics of Indian society in relation to caste, class and power hierarchies have been discussed with a view to ascertain relative role played by the structural and cultural factors. The contributors have ably demonstrated the nexus between theoretical formulations and empirical realities. The differential bearing of theory on facts and vice versa would encourage and inspire students, researchers and teachers for new pastures in the domain of knowledge.
Since this volume is a festschrift in honour of eminent sociologist, Prof. K.L. Sharma, all articles related to his interest have been incorporated in it. Several eminent scholars, his colleagues and students have contributed to the volume. The editors have taken sincere pains to make the volume a composite one for the benefit of all the interested and concerned scholars." (jacket)
