Historical Sociology in India

<p>This book is a comprehensive study of historical sociology and its development especially in the Indian context. It looks at the works of Indian sociologists and analyses their approaches in terms of book-view (normative) and field-view (descriptive) history. The volume:</p><p>• critically appraises reports of empirical surveys conducted during early colonial rule — including those by H. T. Colebrooke Francis Buchanan William Adam;</p><p>• engages with the works of sociologists such as M. N. Srinivas Ramkrishna Mukherjee Louis Dumont Nicholas Dirks Bernard Cohn Yogendra Singh D. N. Dhanagare A. M Shah T. K. Oommen among others; and</p><p>• shows how historical perspective has been adopted in understanding aspects of Indian society — villages castes traditions socio-cultural change education peasants and their movements etc.</p><p>Presenting an alternative idea of social reality this book will deeply interest students and scholars of sociology social theory and social history.</p>