M N Srinivas
Biographic Data
| ID | 18560 |
|---|---|
| NAME | M N Srinivas |
| GIVEN NAMES | M N |
| FAMILY NAME | Srinivas |
| SIGNATURE | SRINIVAS M N |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Delhi |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 57 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 572 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 57 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1946 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 14 |
Remembered Village
Relations Between Castes
This chapter suggests that the Rampura villager's relation with other human beings was mediated through caste. Every caste had a traditional occupation and the various castes of a region were mutually dependent. While occupational specialization resulted in the interdependence of castes, hierarchical ideas expressed in endogamy and the restrictions on inter-dining, emphasized their separation from each other. The maintenance of the separateness o…
Three Important Men
Looking back upon the author's field experience, he notes that three individuals, the headman of Rampura, Kulle Gowda and Nadu Gowda, contributed significantly to his understanding of village life and culture. The three men, each in his own way, taught the author a great deal about village life, and he saw the village principally through them and their activities. Two of the three, the headman and Nadu Gowda, were rich and powerful while the thir…
The Remembered Village
"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 r…
Collected Essays
Profession
Social Change in Modern India
Ex igni renascimur
An Interview with M. N. Srinivas
Practicing Social Anthropology in India
After completing a BA in social philosophy from Mysore, I went to Bombay to do graduate work in sociology with GS Ghurye, who had been a student of WHR Rivers at Cambridge in the 1920s. At the end of eight years, I became disillusioned with diffusionism and unfocused ethnography. I then went to Oxford, where I worked first with AR Radcliffe-Brown and then EE Evans-Pritchard. At Oxford, I became a structural- functionalist, albeit a somewhat skept…
Sociology in India and its Future
Dans un apercu historique de l'evolution de la sociologie en Inde, l'A. decrit la place de la sociologie dans les sciences sociales avant et apres l'Independance. Il met ensuite en valeur la diversite qu'offre l'Inde au travail de terrain. Il salue la democratie Indienne en indiquant les progres qu'elle doit encore accomplir. Puis il emet une opinion tres reservee sur certains aspects culturels des relations avec l'Occident, comme les valeurs veh…
The Cohesive Role of Sanskritization and Other Essays
The work of Professor Srinivas occupies an undisputed place in the development of modern Indian sociology. As the former head of the Department of Sociology at the University of Delhi he did much to stimulate research, specifically that based on fieldwork. The present volume brings together ten essays which cover a wide range of Srinivas' interests. Four of these centre around the institution of the caste system, to which Srinivas has made a last…
A Century of Toda Studies
XI World Congress of Sociology, New Delhi, August 1986
Individualism and Equality [and Comments and Replies]
This paper examines, at the level of values, the relationship between individualism and equality. It has been widely held, since the time of Tocqueville, that, whereas traditional societies emphasize hierarchical values and collective identities, modern societies are marked by their simultaneous concern for equality and the individual. The assumption of a correspondence between individualism and equality appears to be challenged by programmes of …
Basic Needs Viewed from Above and from Below
Some reflections on the nature of caste hierarchy
The Fieldworker and the Field
The Changing Position of Indian Women
tion and a corresponding change in the husband-wife relationship. More recently, urban migration, female political participation, education, careers, and the activities of social reformers have all helped the public acceptance of new roles for women. As yet, only a tiny minority of women have benefited from the changes that have occurred. I Anthropologists have long been interested in the study of the position of women in various parts of the wor…
The remembered village
Culture and Human Fertility in India
Examines the social and cultural underpinnings of human fertility in rural India through sociological studies of village communities published in secondary sources. It is stated that a severe limitiation of the present study is the fact that the village studies were initially conducted with a totally different purpose in view. Such studies have not dealt seriously with fertility behavior and the demographic research has failed to place fertility …
Society and Change
Dimensions of Social Change in India
Method in Social Anthropology
Networks in Indian social structure
A Note on Sanskritization and Westernization
The concept of “Sanskritization” was found useful by me in the analysis of the social and religious life of the Coorgs of South India. A few other anthropologists who are making studies of tribal and village communities in various parts of India seem to find the concept helpful in the analysis of their material, and this fact induces me to attempt a re-examination of it here
The Dominant Caste in Rampura1
Social Change in Modern India
Village India
Individualism and Equality [and Comments and Replies]
This paper examines, at the level of values, the relationship between individualism and equality. It has been widely held, since the time of Tocqueville, that, whereas traditional societies emphasize hierarchical values and collective identities, modern societies are marked by their simultaneous concern for equality and the individual. The assumption of a correspondence between individualism and equality appears to be challenged by programmes of …
Caste in Modern India and Other Essays
The Changing Position of Indian Women
tion and a corresponding change in the husband-wife relationship. More recently, urban migration, female political participation, education, careers, and the activities of social reformers have all helped the public acceptance of new roles for women. As yet, only a tiny minority of women have benefited from the changes that have occurred. I Anthropologists have long been interested in the study of the position of women in various parts of the wor…
Social Change in Modern India
Networks in Indian Social Structure
Method in Social Anthropology
Caste in Modern India
IT IS my aim in this essay' to marshal evidence to show that during the last century or more, the institution of caste has found new fields of activity. The manner in which the British transferred political power to the Indians enabled caste to assume political functions. In independent India, the provision of constitutional safeguards to the backward sections of the population, especially the Scheduled Castes and Tribes, has given a new lease of…
Practicing Social Anthropology in India
After completing a BA in social philosophy from Mysore, I went to Bombay to do graduate work in sociology with GS Ghurye, who had been a student of WHR Rivers at Cambridge in the 1920s. At the end of eight years, I became disillusioned with diffusionism and unfocused ethnography. I then went to Oxford, where I worked first with AR Radcliffe-Brown and then EE Evans-Pritchard. At Oxford, I became a structural- functionalist, albeit a somewhat skept…
The Fieldworker and the Field
Some reflections on the nature of caste hierarchy
Social Change in Modern India
The Development of Sociology and Social Anthropology in India
An attempt is made in this paper to trace the development of two closely-linked and overlapping social sciences, viz., sociology and social anthropology, and in that process to try to explicate the relationship between their development and the cultural milieu in which it has occurred. That milieu has changed much and radi cally during the last six decades or so when both the disciplines developed to their present stage. With India's becoming fre…
Sociology in India and its Future
Dans un apercu historique de l'evolution de la sociologie en Inde, l'A. decrit la place de la sociologie dans les sciences sociales avant et apres l'Independance. Il met ensuite en valeur la diversite qu'offre l'Inde au travail de terrain. Il salue la democratie Indienne en indiquant les progres qu'elle doit encore accomplir. Puis il emet une opinion tres reservee sur certains aspects culturels des relations avec l'Occident, comme les valeurs veh…
Social Anthropology and Sociology
The Changing Position of Indian Women
tion and a corresponding change in the husband-wife relationship. More recently, urban migration, female political participation, education, careers, and the activities of social reformers have all helped the public acceptance of new roles for women. As yet, only a tiny minority of women have benefited from the changes that have occurred. I Anthropologists have long been interested in the study of the position of women in various parts of the wor…
Caste
India's Cultural Values and Economic Development
Ex igni renascimur
An Interview with M. N. Srinivas
The remembered village
Dimensions of Social Change in India
The Social Organization of the Coorgs of South India
Social Anthropology and Sociology
Religion and Society among the Coorgs of South India
This is the late M.N. Srinivas' classic work on the religion and religious practices among the Coorgs in South India based on intensive field work. The author investigates the relationship between religion and society with particular reference to the people living in an isolated part of South India
Religion and Society among the Coorgs of South India
Religion and Society among the Coorgs of Southern India
Symposium on Rural-Urban Relations
A Note on Sanskritization and Westernization
The concept of “Sanskritization” was found useful by me in the analysis of the social and religious life of the Coorgs of South India. A few other anthropologists who are making studies of tribal and village communities in various parts of India seem to find the concept helpful in the analysis of their material, and this fact induces me to attempt a re-examination of it here
Village India
Caste in Modern India
IT IS my aim in this essay' to marshal evidence to show that during the last century or more, the institution of caste has found new fields of activity. The manner in which the British transferred political power to the Indians enabled caste to assume political functions. In independent India, the provision of constitutional safeguards to the backward sections of the population, especially the Scheduled Castes and Tribes, has given a new lease of…
India's Cultural Values and Economic Development
Method in Social Anthropology
The Dominant Caste in Rampura1
Caste
Method in Social Anthropology
Caste in Modern India and Other Essays
Social Structure
Caste in Modern India and Other Essays
Networks in Indian Social Structure
Social Change in Modern India
Social Change in Modern India
Social Change in Modern India
Social Change in Modern India
Sociology and Sociologists in India Today
The Profession
Social Change in Modern India
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