Fieldworker and the Field

Politics & Social Sciences

SRINIVAS,M.N.

Social Sciences

OUP India

The pioneering work of sociologist M. N. Srinivas has stimulated intense debate on the structure of Indian society and the changes taking place there.  This volume brings together seven of Srinivas's most important essays, centering on three institutions basic to Indian society: village, caste, and joint family.

The Dominant Caste and Other Essays

Oxford University Press

The pioneering work of sociologist M. N. Srinivas has stimulated intense debate on the structure of Indian society and the changes taking place there. This volume brings together eight of Srinivas's most important essays, centering on three institutions basic to Indian society: village, caste, and joint family. The author brings a fresh outlook to his work, revealing the continuities amidst the changes taking place in India today.

The Dominant Caste and Other Essays (Oxford India Paperbacks)

History

Australia & Oceania

This volume offers a powerful selection of Srinivas' reflective writings. It begins with a readable account of how Srinivas became an anthropologist and ends with his return to the university after doing fieldwork in the village of Rampura.

Indian Society through Personal Writings (Oxford India Collection (Paperback))

Biographies & Memoirs

Bringing together M.N. Srinivas's best writings on subjects ranging from village studies, caste and the social structure, gender, religion, and cultural and social change in India, The Oxford India Srinivas re-introduces a new generation of readers to the one of the pioneers of sociology andsocial anthropology in India. This compilation of essays examines many diverse aspects of Indian society and culture, both traditional as well as contemporary.Part I, on village studies, contains essays on Srinivas's studies in the village of Rampura, looking at various aspects of life in an Indian village, including the domination of caste in social life and village hierarchy. Part II focuses on caste and social structure in India, discussing caste inIndia, not just its evolution over time but also its place in modern times. Parts III and IV contain essays on gender and religion, while Part V examines the phenomena of cultural and social change in India, including a discussion on nation-building, science, technology and development as well aschanging values and institutions in modern India. Parts VI and VII examine the development and scope of sociology and social anthropology in India, including a discussion on the importance of method in these disciplines. Part VIII is a unique section which includes essays of an autobiographicalnature.The new Introduction by Ramachandra Guha assesses Srinivas's contributions to both Indian academic as well as his position as one of the heavyweights of the disciplines he was associated with. The Foreword by A.M. Shah highlights the importance of Srinivas's work for both academia and inunderstanding the dynamics of social reality in India. This edition will be of interest to students and scholars of sociology and social anthropology, as well as the informed general reader interested in Indian society.

The Oxford India Srinivas

Reference

Sketching an ethnographic portrait of the village ion its own terms, and as an integral part of larger political and historical institutions, The Remembered Village is an exhaustive and detailed description of village life and the complexities of inter- and intra-caste relations. The author's fieldwork was based in the village of Rampura, a multi-caste village in South India. First published in 1976, this book is the first detailed ethnographic village study that narrates in minute detail the day-to-day social relations between members of diverse castes living in a small community, and has been acknowledge as a classic ever since. Srinivas' representation of Rampura's unforgettable inhabitants and their relationships has informed and delighted numerous students, scholars, and interested readers for many years. The Second Edition comes with a new Introduction by Andre Beteille.

The Remembered Village, Second Edition (Oxford India Perennials Series)

India's Villages

Asia Publishing House

The concepts dealt with in the essays included here have had, and continue to have, considerable influence on the discussions on change in Indian society. While concepts like Sanskritization and Westernization have helped the understanding of complex, often seemingly contradictory trends in society, Prof. Srinivas' essay on the study of one's own society continue to engage scholars, opening the way to an understanding of sociological writing itself as a text. This revised edition of the 1966 original includes these classic essays, as also an appendix where Prof. Srinivas deals with the problem of changing values in Indian society today.

Social Change in Modern India

Asia

U. Of California Press

"The author has managed to combine successfully the professional approach of an anthropologist with that of a novelist to the description of an Indian village community. . . .Srinivas has made a virtue out of the misfortune of losing all his field notes: The Remembered Village is a piece of art which is bound to become a classic of Indian ethnography."--T. Scarlett Epstein, Times Higher Education Supplement "The real virtue of this most recent contribution by Dr. Srinivas is the consistently human, humane, and humanistic tone oft he observations and of the narration; the simple, straightforward style in which it is written; and the richness of anecdotal materials. . . . He writes modestly as a wise and knowledgeable man. He restores faith in the best tradition of ethnography. Without being popular, in the pejorative sense, it is a book any uninitiated reader can read with pleasure and enlightenment."--Cora Du Bois, Asian Student "Few accounts of village life give one the sense of coming to know, of vicariously sharing in, the lives of real villagers that this book conveys. . . . The work is holistic in the best anthropological manner; the principal aspects of Rampura life are lucidly sketched and the interrelations among them are cogently considered. . . . our collective knowledge and its practical relevance become enhanced."--David G. Mandelbaum, Economic and Political Weekly "[Srinivas] has described and analyzed life in Rampura in the late 1940s with charm and insight. His book is enjoyable as well as illuminating. . . . In addition to the rich detail of village life and of a number of individual villagers, Srinivas gives us valuable insights into the nature of ethnographic research. He relates how he came to study this particular village. He tells us how he got established in the village, and describes vividly his living quarters. . . . He describes, at various places throughout the book, his reactions to the villagers and his perceptions of their reactions to him. He freely admits his own negative reactions to certain things and certain behavior. He discusses the factors that could and did bias his research. . . . illuminate[s] both the problems and the rewards of the ethnographer. . . . must reading."--Robert H. Lauer, Sociology: Reviews of New Books

The Remembered Village (Volume 26) (Center for South and Southeast Asia Studies, UC Berkeley)

University of California Press

Caste in Modern India

Religion & Spirituality

JK Publrs

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