D L Sheth
Biographic Data
| ID | 367928 |
|---|---|
| NAME | D L Sheth |
| GIVEN NAMES | D L |
| FAMILY NAME | Sheth |
| SIGNATURE | SHETH D L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Centre for the Study of Developing Societies |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 35 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1978 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
At Home with Democracy
Society
This chapter assesses the nature of the changes that have occurred in modern times, especially after independence and shows that they have contributed to the growth of a new type of system of social stratification. It examines the perspective, with a view to showing how its continued predominance in the field of sociology has prevented the awareness of changes that have directly undermined ritual hierarchy as a principle of social stratification.…
India’s Nationhood
The discipline of history has failed to recognize that it has always been affected by contemporary politics in diverse ways, despite attempts to maintain its autonomy. The article argues that unless the relationship between history and contemporary politics is defined, both would be misused for partisan ends. On this backdrop, the article explores relations between the two in the Indian context and argues that, in India, history was always influe…
The Multiverse of Democracy
The Multiverse of Democracy
Democracy and Globalization in India
The post-Cold War project of globalization is changing the established notion of liberal democracy and local governance. The political autonomy of the liberal state is being increasingly compromised in favor of market forces and local governance more and more exposed to direct penetration by global and corporate power structures. This change has far-reaching implications for the future of democracy, particularly in the Third World. Aware of this …
The NGO sector in India
The last two decades have witnessed a veritable mushrooming of NGOs in India. What, however, is inadequately appreciated is that the conversion of voluntarism into primarily a favoured instrumentality for developmental intervention has changed what was once an organic part of civil society into merely a sector — an appendage of the developmental apparatus of the state. Further, this process of instrumental appropriation has resulted in these agen…
The Future of Caste in India
Nation-Building in Multi-Ethnic Societies
Alternative Development as Political Practice
Dhirubhai Sheth and Manfred Halpern
Grass-Roots Stirrings and the Future of Politics
This paper explores the possibility of the prevailing widespread frustration and disillusionment with modern politics, as much for its failure to make good the promise it had held out as for the incapacity of its structures and institutions to find even token solutions to the problems and crises which beset the present-day world, being canalized towards a new politics of the future. Frustration and disillusionment are all too plain to be either i…
Organizational Affiliation and Political Behaviour
The NGO sector in India
The last two decades have witnessed a veritable mushrooming of NGOs in India. What, however, is inadequately appreciated is that the conversion of voluntarism into primarily a favoured instrumentality for developmental intervention has changed what was once an organic part of civil society into merely a sector — an appendage of the developmental apparatus of the state. Further, this process of instrumental appropriation has resulted in these agen…
Alternative Development as Political Practice
Democracy and Globalization in India
The post-Cold War project of globalization is changing the established notion of liberal democracy and local governance. The political autonomy of the liberal state is being increasingly compromised in favor of market forces and local governance more and more exposed to direct penetration by global and corporate power structures. This change has far-reaching implications for the future of democracy, particularly in the Third World. Aware of this …
Nation-Building in Multi-Ethnic Societies
Grass-Roots Stirrings and the Future of Politics
This paper explores the possibility of the prevailing widespread frustration and disillusionment with modern politics, as much for its failure to make good the promise it had held out as for the incapacity of its structures and institutions to find even token solutions to the problems and crises which beset the present-day world, being canalized towards a new politics of the future. Frustration and disillusionment are all too plain to be either i…
The Future of Caste in India
Organizational Affiliation and Political Behaviour
Grass-Roots Stirrings and the Future of Politics
This paper explores the possibility of the prevailing widespread frustration and disillusionment with modern politics, as much for its failure to make good the promise it had held out as for the incapacity of its structures and institutions to find even token solutions to the problems and crises which beset the present-day world, being canalized towards a new politics of the future. Frustration and disillusionment are all too plain to be either i…
Alternative Development as Political Practice
Dhirubhai Sheth and Manfred Halpern
Nation-Building in Multi-Ethnic Societies
The NGO sector in India
The last two decades have witnessed a veritable mushrooming of NGOs in India. What, however, is inadequately appreciated is that the conversion of voluntarism into primarily a favoured instrumentality for developmental intervention has changed what was once an organic part of civil society into merely a sector — an appendage of the developmental apparatus of the state. Further, this process of instrumental appropriation has resulted in these agen…
The Future of Caste in India
Democracy and Globalization in India
The post-Cold War project of globalization is changing the established notion of liberal democracy and local governance. The political autonomy of the liberal state is being increasingly compromised in favor of market forces and local governance more and more exposed to direct penetration by global and corporate power structures. This change has far-reaching implications for the future of democracy, particularly in the Third World. Aware of this …
The Multiverse of Democracy
The Multiverse of Democracy
India’s Nationhood
The discipline of history has failed to recognize that it has always been affected by contemporary politics in diverse ways, despite attempts to maintain its autonomy. The article argues that unless the relationship between history and contemporary politics is defined, both would be misused for partisan ends. On this backdrop, the article explores relations between the two in the Indian context and argues that, in India, history was always influe…
Society
This chapter assesses the nature of the changes that have occurred in modern times, especially after independence and shows that they have contributed to the growth of a new type of system of social stratification. It examines the perspective, with a view to showing how its continued predominance in the field of sociology has prevented the awareness of changes that have directly undermined ritual hierarchy as a principle of social stratification.…
At Home with Democracy
Political science (12 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Law (9 works) · Politics (9 works) · Law (7 works) · Political economy (7 works) · Economics (5 works) · Democracy (4 works) · Autonomy (3 works) · Epistemology (3 works)