6.3 Indian sociology and thinkers notes

1. 6.3.1Indian sociology: Bombay and Lucknow schools, book view and field view, and G.S. Ghurye

   Indian sociology grew in two early centres, Bombay (Ghurye's text-and-history approach) and Lucknow (a broad, value-oriented social science), and later debated whether India should be known through its classical texts ("book view") or through fieldwork ("field view").

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2. 6.3.2M.N. Srinivas: Sanskritisation, Westernisation and dominant caste

   M.N. Srinivas, the pioneer of field-based Indian sociology, explained caste mobility through Sanskritisation, change under British rule through Westernisation, and village power through the dominant caste.

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3. 6.3.3Louis Dumont and Andre Beteille: hierarchy, purity–pollution and caste, class and power

   Dumont explained caste as a single ideological system built on the opposition of pure and impure, in which status ranks above power; Beteille's field study showed caste, class and power coming apart in a changing Tamil village.

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4. 6.3.4Village studies and tradition: S.C. Dube, Redfield, Marriott and Yogendra Singh's modernisation of tradition

   The village studies of the 1950s replaced the image of the unchanging "village republic" with field data on caste, kinship and change; Redfield and Marriott explained how folk and classical traditions interact, and Yogendra Singh built a framework for how Indian tradition modernises.

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