Talking Sociology

Dipankar Gupta in Conversation with Ramin Jahanbegloo

Prof. Ramin Jahanbegloo, Prof. Dipankar Gupta (Autoren)

Buch | Hardcover

192 Seiten

2018
OUP India (Verlag)
978-0-19-948937-4 (ISBN)

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The ninth title in the OUP series of Ramin Jahanbegloo's conversations with prominent intellectuals who have made significant contribution in shaping the modern Indian thought. This volume covers the life and works of the influential Indian sociologist and public intellectual, Dipankar Gupta.

Talking Sociology is the ninth title in the OUP series of Ramin Jahanbegloo's conversations with prominent intellectuals who have made significant contribution in shaping the modern Indian thought. The present volume covers the life and works of the influential Indian sociologist and public intellectual, Dipankar Gupta. As a social scientist, Gupta has made remarkable contribution to contemporary social theory by redefining and reconstructing the central concepts of the past masters and taking sociology beyond its disciplinary boundaries by helping several generations of Indians understand contemporary social change and transformation of institutions. He is considered the most insightful analyst of modernity and modernization in India. The conversation in this volume revolves around Gupta's career and contribution to the field, and discusses the key areas of sociology such as the problem of social stratification, citizenship and democracy, and the caste system and ethnic groups in India.

RAMIN JAHANBEGLOO is professor and vice dean and executive director, Mahatma Gandhi Centre for Peace Studies, O.P. Jindal Global University, Sonipat, Haryana. He did his PhD in philosophy from the Sorbonne University, France. He is the author of 'Talking India: Ashis Nandy in Conversation with Ramin Jahanbegloo' (OUP 2006), 'India Revisited: Conversations on Contemporary India' (OUP 2007), 'India Analysed: Sudhir Kakar in Conversation with Ramin Jahanbegloo' (OUP 2015), 'Talking Architecture: Raj Rewal in Conversation with Ramin Jahanbegloo' (OUP 2009), 'Talking Politics: Bhikhu Parekh in Conversation with Ramin Jahanbegloo' (OUP 2011), 'Talking Environment: Vandana Shiva in Conversation with Ramin Jahanbegloo' (OUP 2013), 'Talking Philosophy: Richard Sorabji in Conversation with Ramin Jahanbegloo' (OUP 2015) and 'Talking History: Romila Thapar in Conversation with Ramin Jahanbegloo' (OUP 2017). In October 2009 Jahanbegloo was awarded the Peace Prize by the United Nations Association in Spain for his extensive academic works in promoting dialogue between cultures and his advocacy for non-violence. DIPANKAR GUPTA has taught for nearly three decades in the Jawaharlal Nehru University. He was also Professor in the Delhi School of Economics between 1992-1994. He has worked on Social Stratification, Ethnicity, Modernity and Peasant Mobilization. In recent years, he has written extensively on social policy and has been a Member in a number of Boards such as the Reserve Bank of India, National Security Advisory Board, National Broadcasting Standards Association. He also led the Division on Business Ethics in KPMG, India between 1998-2006. He has held visiting assignments in several universities in India, Europe, USA and UK. Besides this book he has authored and edited 19 others. He was awarded 'Chevalier de L'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres' by the French Government in 2010.

Introduction: Dipankar Gupta-Making Sense of India and Modernity

Part I: From Bihar to Delhi

A Bengali Household
Growing Up in an Apolitical Family
Nehruvian Times and the Partition Effect
An Agnostic Indian
The Art of Being a Bengali
An Unhappy School boy
A Mumbai Man
Entering Academics and the Delhi School of Economics
Appreciating Philosophy
The Joshi Influence
The JNU Years
Politics at JNU

Part II: Thinking Sociology

The Shiv Sena in Bombay
The Emergency Years
Learning Experiences in the West
Becoming a Regular Teacher
Ethics and Business
Reading Levinas
Contributions to Indian Sociology
Thinking with the French Culture
The Impact of Levi-Strauss

Part III: Citizenship and Democracy

Revolution from Above
The Bilbao Experience
The Comparative Mood and the Indian Laboratory
The Role of the Citizen Elite
Gandhi and the West
Gandhi and the Political Grammar of Democracy
Exoticising Gandhi
Thinking Nonviolence Today
Gandhi, Nehru and the Constitution
Ram Mohan Roy and Saint Simon
Fraternity and Empathy
Citizenship and Indianess

Part IV: Caste, Village, and Modernity

How to Judge Rural India
Are We Moderns?
Orientalism and Caste
The End of Caste?
Caste and Elections in India

Part V: Communalism and Ethnicity

Sikh Identity Politics
The Sikh Identity
Nation-States and Their Enemies
The Sacralization of India
Nationalism and Grievances
The Role of Sociologists in Democracies

Part VI: Modern Institutions and Cultural Spaces

Space, Non-Space and Secularization
The Sacred in Indian Politics
Religion and the State
Reason and Progress

Index
About the Authors

Erscheinungsdatum	08.02.2019
Verlagsort	New Delhi
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 224 mm
Gewicht	358 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
ISBN-10	0-19-948937-8 / 0199489378
ISBN-13	978-0-19-948937-4 / 9780199489374
Zustand	Neuware