Contents: Acknowledgement. Preface. 1. On M.N. Srinivas/V.K. Nataraj. 2. Remembering M.N. Srinivas/K.S. Singh. 3. M.N. Srinivas in Baroda/A.M. Shah. 4. Srinivas and national museum of mankind/Kishor K. Basa and G. Jayaprakasan. 5. Professor M.N. Srinivas and his monograph the remembered village: a critical assessment/Ravindra Kumar Jain. 6. Rereading M.N. Srinivas as an ethnographer/P.K. Misra. 7. Srinivas and participant observation/M.N. Panini. 8. Religion and society among the Coorgs of South India: some conceptual and methodological issues/S.B. Konale and H.K. Bhat. 9. Sanskritization revisited/A.M. Shah. 10. Reflections on caste/Ajit Kumar Danda. 11. Srinivas and village studies: a look into his approach and method/Rajatsubhra Mukhopadhyay. 12. Contributions of M.N. Srinivas to village studies: and appraisal/K. Ravi. 13. Sanskritization of non-Brahman communities in Kerala/P.R.G. Mathur. 14. Social mobility and Sanskritization process among the scheduled castes of Tamil Nadu/S.A.A. Saheb and C. Raghu. 15. MNS the insider versus MNS the outsider: the researcher identity in the study of society/S. Gregory and Jancy F. Gregory. 16. Sociology and social anthropology: views of M.N. Srinivas/V. Gangadharam. Index.
"M.N. Srinivas is like a colossus in social science research in India. Known for his empirical and analytical approaches in studying continuity and change in Indian society, Srinivas has developed a number of concepts. Some scholars have agreed with his concepts while some others have strong reservations and disagreement. But it is difficult to remain indifferent to what he has contributed.
The book takes a fresh look into Srinivas' concepts and contributions to the field. It contains reminiscences, appreciations and critical evaluations of Srinivas by a number of social scientists in India, including some of his students. As some scholars have covered similar theme, some overlap in the presentations was bound to happen and this has been retained deliberately following Srinivas' own dictum that social reality, when looked from different viewpoints, enhances its understanding.
The book will be useful for social scientists in general as well as social anthropologists and sociologists in particular." (jacket)
