Sociology and Sociologists in India: Perspectives from the North-West

Contents: 1. Development and Social Transformation in North-West Regions of India. 2. Emergence of Sociology in North-West India. Part 1: Development and Modernisation. 3. S.L. Sharma. 4. S.R. Mehta. 5. Bashir Ahmad Dabla. Part 2: Urban Studies. 6. Victor S. D’Souza. 7. Jaspal Singh. 8. Ranvinder Singh Sandhu. Part 3: Dalit Studies. 9. P.N. Pimpley. 10. Satish Kumar Sharma. Part 4: Social Movements and Political Sociology. 11. Paramjit Singh Judge. 12. Birinder Pal Singh. 13. Bhupendra Kumar Nagla. 14. North-West Indian Sociology: The Road Ahead.

Sociology and Sociologists in India: Perspectives from the North-West is an attempt to make a descriptive inquiry along with a critical analysis of the origin, development and the current state of sociology as a discipline in North-West India. Generally, like other social sciences, sociological studies at national and international levels are taken into cognizance and studies of regional sociologists are ignored which are equally important for the construction of concepts, theories and methods.

India, as a society comprises various geographical and cultural zones which need exposition through regions so that richness of diverse sociological thought could be derived. It will also provide ‘critical life’ to sociology as an interdisciplinary discipline. With this frame of idea the present book is an attempt to examine the ideas of those sociologists who belong to North-West region of India, particularly Chandigarh (UT), Punjab, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh and Jammu & Kashmir.