T N Madan
Biographic Data
| ID | 154390 |
|---|---|
| NAME | T N Madan |
| GIVEN NAMES | T N |
| FAMILY NAME | Madan |
| SIGNATURE | MADAN T N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1698-8258 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 84 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 374 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 84 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1961 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 10 |
Conversations with Jit
From the Archive: Transition to Contributions to Indian Sociology (New Series)
Comprising two parts, the article focuses on the closure in 1966 of Contributions to Indian Sociology, the journal founded in 1957 by Louis Dumont and David Pocock. The two authors, T.N. Madan and Adrian C. Mayer, write about the transition of Contributions to Indian Sociology to Contributions to Indian Sociology: New Series in 1967. Their recollections are based on their correspondence with Dumont and each other. The intention is to place on rec…
The Two Lives of Leela Dube Introductory Remarks on her Life and Work
This essay presents an integrated account of the personal and professional lives of Leela Dube. Born and brought up in a traditional, Maharashtrian, Brahman household, which was urban and in some respects modern too, Leela Dube journeyed from such a home through modern school and college education into a marriage by personal choice and a professional career in anthropology. It is an account of the engagement of an intelligent and highly educated …
Introduction: Problems and Methods
This introductory chapter begins with a brief description of the reasons why Indian and foreign anthropologists have paid inadequate attention to the need for empirical field studies of Hindu kinship. It then explains the rationale behind the present study, fieldwork, and scope.
Domesticity and Detachment
This chapter presents an account of the Pandit ideology of the householder in which the purposes and procedures of the good life, lived in affirmation of the values of plenitude and detachment, are spelled out. The Pandits' ideology of the householder is, in fact, much more than just that: it is their ideology of humanity. While all sentient beings are born (and die), human beings are ‘made’ or constructed and achieve different degrees of perfect…
Radhakamal Mukerjee and His Contemporaries: Founding Fathers of Sociology in India
The Hindu Householder: The T.N. Madan Omnibus
This Omnibus brings together two of distinguished sociologist T.N. Madan's books on the concept of the householder in Hinduism. A common thread running through the Omnibus is the focus on life and society amongst the Hindu Kashmiri Pandit community. It includes his seminal writings on marriage, kinship, family, and the household in Hindu society. Family and Kinship: A Study of the Pandits of Rural Kashmir is a pioneering and ethnographically rich…
Sociological Traditions: Methods and Perspectives in the Sociology of India
Preface I: CULTURAL TRADITIONS, SOCIOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES Indian Secularism in a Post-secular Age Hinduism: The Book View and the Field View Islam: The Universal and the Particular Sikhism: The Sacred and the Secular Gandhi and Weber: The Work Ethic, Capitalism, and Conscience II: SOCIOLOGICAL TRADITIONS: EXEMPLARS, INTERPRETERS Radhakamal Mukerjee and His Contemporaries D P Mukerji: Towards a Historical Sociology - D P Mukerji M N Srinivas: Empe…
Epilogue
The manner in which the interrelatedness of culture, society, and politics has unfolded in India over the last hundred years or so has made the secularism debate today also a debate about religious nationalism and fundamentalism. Its controversial nature comes partly from ideological differences concerning the role of religion in society and partly from conceptual ambiguities that are common in such situations. This book is a contribution to thes…
Charles Miller Leslie, 1923-2009
Modern Myths, Locked Minds: Secularism and Fundamentalism in India
Towards a radical sociology of religion
January 2008 Contributions to Indian Sociology at fifty
M.N. Srinivas, Max Weber, and Functionalism
Hinduism
Use of the English term “Hinduism” (and its equivalents in various European languages) to designate certain aspects of the cultural traditions of Hindus anywhere is commonplace, but it is relatively recent and not wholly unproblematic. The idea that the Hindus must have a “religion” comparable to Christianity and worthy of study originated with British administrators and scholars in India in the last quarter of the eighteenth century. These schol…
Ramchandra Gandhi, 1937-2007
The Sociology of Hinduism: Reading ‘Backwards’ from Srinivas to Weber
Dans cet article, l'A s'interesse a la sociologie des religions en Inde. L'A analyse ici les travaux de M.N. Srinivas, et se penche sur la question de l'hindouisme. Il compare les approches de M.N. Srinivas et de M. Weber, pour tenter de comprendre l'importance de la sociologie des religions dans l'aprehension des problemes contemporains de la societe indienne
Images of the World: Essays on Religion, Secularism, and Culture
PREFACE PART I RELIGION AND SECULARISM 1. Religion in the Modern World 2. Freedom of Religion 3. Secularism in its Place 4. Secularism in India: Predicaments and Prospects 5. Secularism Revisited: Doctrine of Destiny or Political Ideology? PART II RELIGIOUS AND SECULAR IDENTITIES 6. The Dialectic of Religion and Ethnicity in Bangladesh, Punjab, and Kashmir 7. Kashmir, Kashmiris, Kashmiriyat PART III RELIGIOUS TRADITIONS AND VALUES 8. Indias Relig…
M. N. Srinivas, 1916-1999
The Comparison of Civilizations: Louis Dumont on India and the West
The social anthropological/sociological oeuvre of Louis Dumont (1911-98) embraced continents: the contrast between the defining ideologies of traditional and modern societies was his central concern. Traditional society represented by India and modern society represented by the West were respectively considered by him to exemplify the principles of holism/hierarchy and individualism/equality. Further, what is 'manifest' in one type of society is …
Louis Dumont 1911-1998: A memoir
This essay briefly discusses the major contributions of Louis Dumont to the sociology of India and to the study of the ideology of individualism in the West. Changing from the formal to the personal mode of presentation, the author recalls his association with Dumont over a period of thirty-five years. He describes the launching of the second series of Contributions to Indian sociology in 1967, the presentation of a festschrift to Dumont in 1982,…
Coping with ethnicity in South Asia: Bangladesh, Punjab and Kashmir compared
In the anthropological and sociological studies of India the terms 'tribe' and 'caste', have been in use for almost two hundred years. The related notions of 'tribalism' and 'casteism' were brought in to replace a static (structural) by a dynamic (organizational, processual) approach. Since the 1970s, 'ethnic group' and 'ethnicity' have gained currency. After defining the terms, three cases of ethnicity are examined, namely East Bengali Muslim, P…
Muslim Communities of South Asia: Culture, Society, and Power
Pathways: Approaches to the Study of Society in India
Shyama Charan Dube (1922-96): A memoir
Secularism in Its Place
This is the text, with a few verbal modifications, of a lecture delivered by T. N. Madan at the President's Panel in Honor of the Fulbright Fortieth Anniversary Program, on the occasion of the 1987 meeting of the Association of Asian Studies in Boston. T. N. Madan has invigorated the social sciences in India for many years by his research, writing, and teaching. As an author he has written on such themes as Hindu culture, culture and development,…
Family and kinship: A study of the Pandits of rural Kashmir
Whither Indian Secularism
The present paper seeks 'to explore the nature of Indian secularism, the difficulties it has run into, and the ways in which it may be revised'. This is a large undertaking for a short text, originally written as public lecture, particularly because the issues posed do nopt readily translate into plain questions. The most that I can hope to do is to raise some doubts and make a few suggestions for rethinking the issues involved
The Social Organization of the Marri Baluch
Structural implications of marriage in north India: Wife-givers and wife-takers among the Pandits of Kashmir
Community involvement in health policy; Socio-structural and dynamic aspects of health beliefs
Pathways: Approaches to the Study of Society in India
The ideology of the householder among the Kashmiri Pandits
Analyse de la place du chef de famille, grhastha, chez les Brahmanes de la vallee du Cachemire, connus sous le nom de Pandit. Essai de definition des principes de base de l'ideologie Pandit du chef de famille
Auspiciousness and Purity: Some Reconsiderations
Non-Renunciation: Themes and Interpretations of Hindu Culture
Religious Ideology in a Plural Society: The Muslims and Hindus of Kashmir
Sociological Traditions: Methods and Perspectives in the Sociology of India
Preface I: CULTURAL TRADITIONS, SOCIOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES Indian Secularism in a Post-secular Age Hinduism: The Book View and the Field View Islam: The Universal and the Particular Sikhism: The Sacred and the Secular Gandhi and Weber: The Work Ethic, Capitalism, and Conscience II: SOCIOLOGICAL TRADITIONS: EXEMPLARS, INTERPRETERS Radhakamal Mukerjee and His Contemporaries D P Mukerji: Towards a Historical Sociology - D P Mukerji M N Srinivas: Empe…
Muslim Communities of South Asia: Culture, Society, and Power
Culture and Society in India
A Biological Comparison of Eight Endogamous Groups of the Same Rank [and Comments and Replies]
In order to examine the hypothesis that some Indian groups formerly called "sub-castes" (with the implication of common origin) are in fact separate groups which at different times and places achieved the same social rank, members of eight endogamous groups, all called Brahmins, in Maharashtra were studied for morphological and genetic characters. The statistics developed by Sanghvi-T and G -and an additional one, S (somatoscopic difference) base…
Is the Brahmanic Gotra a Grouping of Kin
Louis Dumont 1911-1998: A memoir
This essay briefly discusses the major contributions of Louis Dumont to the sociology of India and to the study of the ideology of individualism in the West. Changing from the formal to the personal mode of presentation, the author recalls his association with Dumont over a period of thirty-five years. He describes the launching of the second series of Contributions to Indian sociology in 1967, the presentation of a festschrift to Dumont in 1982,…
January 2008 Contributions to Indian Sociology at fifty
On death without dignity: The human impact of technological dying
Choice and Morality in Anthropological Perspective: Essays in Honor of Derek Freeman
Secularisation and the Sikh Religious Tradition
L'auteur examine les faits saillants de l'émergence et de l'évo lution de la tradition religieuse Sikh. Il fixe son attention sur le processus de sécularisation. Il tente de montrer comment la répu diation de l'idéal Hindu de renonciation et I'accent mis sur une morale d'orientation intra-mondaine ont conduit le Sikhisme à envisager progressivement le pouvoir politique comme un but légi time. Foi religieuse et conflit armé se sont alors imbriqués…
The Comparison of Civilizations: Louis Dumont on India and the West
The social anthropological/sociological oeuvre of Louis Dumont (1911-98) embraced continents: the contrast between the defining ideologies of traditional and modern societies was his central concern. Traditional society represented by India and modern society represented by the West were respectively considered by him to exemplify the principles of holism/hierarchy and individualism/equality. Further, what is 'manifest' in one type of society is …
Coping with ethnicity in South Asia: Bangladesh, Punjab and Kashmir compared
In the anthropological and sociological studies of India the terms 'tribe' and 'caste', have been in use for almost two hundred years. The related notions of 'tribalism' and 'casteism' were brought in to replace a static (structural) by a dynamic (organizational, processual) approach. Since the 1970s, 'ethnic group' and 'ethnicity' have gained currency. After defining the terms, three cases of ethnicity are examined, namely East Bengali Muslim, P…
Dying with dignity
Readers’ Forum: The Teaching of Sociology in India : Some Comments
Dhirendra Nath Majumdar 1903-1960
P died suddenly from a cerebral haemorrhage on
The joint family: A terminological clarification
The Hindu Joint Family
Is the Brahmanic Gotra a Grouping of Kin
Proverbs: The 'Single-Meaning' Category
For a Sociology of India: Some Clarifications
The Social Organization of the Marri Baluch
A Biological Comparison of Eight Endogamous Groups of the Same Rank [and Comments and Replies]
In order to examine the hypothesis that some Indian groups formerly called "sub-castes" (with the implication of common origin) are in fact separate groups which at different times and places achieved the same social rank, members of eight endogamous groups, all called Brahmins, in Maharashtra were studied for morphological and genetic characters. The statistics developed by Sanghvi-T and G -and an additional one, S (somatoscopic difference) base…
Culture and Society in India
India: The Problems of Indian Society By Devabrata Bose. Popular, Bombay. 1968. xii, 206p. Rs. 28.00
India: Studies in Social and Political Development 1947–1967. Edited by A. Appadorai. Asia Publishing House, Bombay, 1968. xvi + 342 pages, Rs. 32
Asia: The Japanese Technocracy: Management and Government in Japan By Marshall E. Dimock. Walker, New York. 1968. 197 p. $5.95
On the Nature of Caste in India A Review Symposium on Louis Dumont's Homo Hierarchicus: 1 Introduction
Language Rivalry and National Unity
Family and Kinship: A Study of the Pandit of Rural Kashmir
Society in India. Vol 1: Contituity and Change. Vol. 2: Change and Continuity. David Mandelbaum
Religious Ideology in a Plural Society: The Muslims and Hindus of Kashmir
India: Economic and Social Development: Essays in Honour of Dr. C.D. Deshmukh Ed. S.L.N. Simha. Vora, Bombay. 1972. xix, 492p. Rs. 50.00
II Kinship and Urbanization
The Profession: Twelfth All-India Sociological Conference
Readers’ Forum: The Teaching of Sociology in India : Some Comments
Structural implications of marriage in north India: Wife-givers and wife-takers among the Pandits of Kashmir
For a Sociology of India: David Pocock on the study of belief and practice
India: Imtiaz Ahmad, Ed.: Kinship and Marriage Among Muslims in India. Manohar Book Service, New Delhi, 1976, xxxiv, 367 p. Rs. 75
India: S.K. Srivastava: Tradition and Modernization. Indian International Publications, Allahabad, 1976, viii, 211p. Rs. 60
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