N Jayaram
Biographic Data
| ID | 3686582 |
|---|---|
| NAME | N Jayaram |
| GIVEN NAMES | N |
| FAMILY NAME | Jayaram |
| SIGNATURE | JAYARAM N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Tata Institute of Social Sciences |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8151-5273 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 41 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 30 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1977 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Influence of Urban Planning on Social Dynamics
It is well known that there is a complex interaction between urban spatial design and human behavior. Environment has a significant impact on social dynamics and the activities of people. It is more pronounced in cities. In the Al-Bataween area of Baghdad, the interaction of people with their surroundings provides an opportunity to examine the physical space layout that influences routines and social interactions. In this context, this paper exam…
Between Tradition and Modernity
In his book Modernization of Indian Tradition, Yogendra Singh advanced a ‘paradigm for an integrated approach’ to analysing social change. Drawing insights from this paradigm, this lecture delivered in his memory analyses the dialectics of or the relations between tradition and modernity. It is based on a sociological reading of the historical novel Saheb Bibi Golam by the Bengali litterateur Bimal Mitra. It elucidates fiction as ethnography and …
Facing China
From Indians in Trinidad to Indo-Trinidadians
Culture and the Community
Ethnicity, Self-Knowledge and Literary Sensitivity
Taking a cue from G. S. Ghurye’s Shakespeare on Conscience and Justice (1965) this lecture in his memory explores the role of ethnicity in shaping the self-knowledge and literary sensitivity of V. S. Naipaul. Naipaul’s life traverses three distinct cultures: the Hindu culture brought by his ancestors who came as indentured migrants to Trinidad, the Creole culture of colonial Trinidad and the emerging modern culture of western civilisation. Much o…
Caste Matters in Public Policy
Partha Nath Mukherji (1940–2021)
This essay is a tribute to the memory of Partha Nath Mukherji (1940–2021), the past President of the Indian Sociological Society (2004–2005). After briefly tracing his scholarly career, it provides an overview of his sociological contributions spanning almost six decades. His oeuvre covered a variety of themes and issues, both empirical and theoretical, which can be categorised under the following rubrics: social movements and social change, soci…
Sociological Imagination and Literary Sensitivity
M. N. Srinivas is undoubtedly the most readable among sociologists in India. For him, the way he wrote about a subject was as important as the subject itself. This lent a literary flavour to his writings. His writings are, in fact, imbued with a rare combination of sociological imagination and literary sensitivity; The Remembered Village, his masterpiece is perhaps the best illustration of this. In his Hassan Raja Rao Lecture, titled ‘Social Anth…
S aberwal, S atish (1933–2010)
Satish Saberwal, an American‐trained Indian anthropologist, worked on the intersections between social anthropology and historical sociology. Influenced by his mentor, Victor Turner, Saberwal used the comparative method to examine long‐term trajectories of institutions, ideas, and processes in India and Europe. Among his important works are Mobile Men: Limits to Social Change in Urban Punjab (1976), Wages of Segmentation: Comparative Historical S…
Democratisation in the Himalayas
Democratisation in the Himalayas
Illiteracy, Sociology of
Mylène Gaulard, Karl Marx à Pékin – Les racines de la crise en Chine capitaliste (Karl Marx in Beijing
Mylène Gaulard’s book is as compelling as it is problematic. It is compelling because it offers new paths of reflection by challenging key concepts that a new globalised economic doxa wants to be taken at face value. In a world where economics seems to have become the very heart of political action, it is important to note that this discipline is not an exact science and that the grand certitudes of economism are quite often retrospective. As wit…
“La Chine et l’ordre du monde” (China and the world order)
The journal Agone’s issue No. 52 is interesting on several counts. The collection of texts, written mainly by renowned Chinese intellectuals, attempts to examine “China from the inside, devoid of Orientalist colourings and fascination for economic performance.” It adds to a list of translations into French beginning with the Écrits édifiants et curieux sur la Chine du xxe siècle (Edifying and Curious Writings on China in the Twentieth Century) ed…
Against Fragmentation
Recognising Adoption
This article is based on a survey conducted over two years in Kunming and its vicinity, as well as in the rural areas of Yunnan Province. It considers the relations between administrators (officials) and the administered (families) in the process of adoption procedures. After going over the regular, albeit little noticed, practices of adoption in China, the text analyses the interactions and negotiations that take place, case by case, as families…
The ‘Bombay School’ and Urban Sociology in India
Introduction
Erik Kjeld Brødsgaard, Hainan – State, Society, and Business in a Chinese Province
Cet ouvrage de Kjeld Erik Brødsgaard, professeur et directeur du centre de recherche sur l’Asie (Asia Research Center, Copenhagen Business School), aborde à travers l’étude détaillée de la province de Hainan à l’ère des réformes, une large palette de sujets, allant des relations entre l’autorité centrale et les autorités provinciales et locales aux stratégies de développement économique de l’île, en passant par les réformes administratives en Chi…
Zhao Yeqin, Construction des espaces urbains et rénovation d’un quartier de Shanghai
des espaces urbains et rnovation d'un quartier de Shanghai: la problmatique de la migration et du changement social (Construction of urban spaces and renovation of a community of Shanghai: The problematic of migration and social change) Shanghai, Shanghai Sanlian Shudian, 430 pp
Julia Lovell, The opium war
Le sujet est certainement l’un des plus rebattus de l’histoire chinoise. De fait, le spécialiste n’apprendra pas grand-chose de neuf dans ce qui est avant tout une synthèse (réussie) des travaux existants. La principale plus-value de ce livre réside dans le fait qu’il propose souvent une perspective élargie que les ouvrages de recherche plus pointus ont parfois tendance à perdre de vue. Ainsi prend-on conscience que la première guerre de l’opium …
Alain Roux, Le singe et le tigre
We now have a monumental biography of Mao in French: nearly 900 pages of text and 200 pages of notes ! And all this text is not only highly detailed, it is also reliable, generally accurate, and always impartial. Right in the introduction (p. 9), Alain Roux tells the reader that the author of a biography ought to feel some empathy for his subject. Most gratifyingly, this empathy is manifested especially, and most discreetly, at the very end of th…
Frank Dikötter, Mao’s Great Famine, The History of China’s most devastating catastrophe, 1958-62
Frank Dikötter’s work, appearing half a century after the most murderous year (1960), will henceforth be the leading account on the “Great Famine.” Like Jasper Becker’s book, Dikötter’s focuses on describing and conveying to the reader the stark effects of the famine at the local level, whereas a series of other good accounts have concentrated on analysing the decisions and political conflicts at the top of the Communist hierarchy. Unlike Becker,…
Thirty Years of Economic Reform and Workforce Transformation in China
This study starts with the observation that Chinese publications on the workforce refer to two sets of statistics that diverge on a number of points: annual statistical reports take job status into account, while censuses adopt a double classification under branch and type of work. This study seeks to reconcile the two sets of figures to glean a more realistic image of changes in the situation over the last three decades. It shows that China has …
The metamorphosis of caste among Trinidad Hindus
The discussion on caste among diasporic Hindus is often phrased in terms of a 'retention' versus 'change' hypothesis. Based on a review of literature and field observations in Trinidad, this paper argues that such an antithesis distorts our understanding of caste as a diasporic reality and clouds many of its fascinating nuances. The analysis of change that caste as an integral institution of Hinduism has undergone in Trinidad shows the heuristic …
Introduction
Ethnicity and Education
Against Fragmentation
South Asia Workshop The State of Sociology
The Dynamics of Language in Indian Diaspora
Dans le cadre des etudes sur la diaspora indienne, l'A. examine la situation de l'hindi standard et du dialecte bhojpuri das l'ile de la Trinite (Petites Antilles). Ces deux langues ne sont plus parlees couramment que par quelques vieilles personnes vivant en milieu rural. Il n'existe plus a proprement parler de communaute linguistique. Tout ce qui a survecu de ces langues n'existe plus que dans quelques chansons folkloriques, dans quelques terme…
Viewpoints and Comments
Political Economy of Medical Education in India
Higher Education, Inequality and Social Change in India
Higher education as status stabilizer
Urban stratification represents one of the complex areas of sociological analysis in India. What is most impressive about it is that we know so little about it. The available empirical evidence, however, is consistent in demonstrating the overall stability of status structure in urban India (see e.g., Sovani 1966; Jorapur 1971; and Dubey 19/5). In this paper an attempt has been made at examining the role of higher education which is essentially a…
Higher Education, Inequality and Social Change in India
India
Ethnicity and Education
Higher Education in India
Emancipation through Proselytism
Qu'elles aient ete des composantes originelles de l'hindouisme ou qu'elles y aient ete « incorporees » ulterieurement, le statut marginal des castes inferieures dans le systeme hindou demeure une constante. Certaines ont cherche dans l'hindouisme meme une emancipation par l'acces au sanskrit. Mais, en epousant la logique de caste, cette attitude ne pouvait que la renforcer. La conversion a une autre religion est apparue alors comme la solution. L…
Religious Revivalism and Ethnic Fratricide
Political Economy of Medical Education in India
Viewpoints and Comments
The Dynamics of Language in Indian Diaspora
Dans le cadre des etudes sur la diaspora indienne, l'A. examine la situation de l'hindi standard et du dialecte bhojpuri das l'ile de la Trinite (Petites Antilles). Ces deux langues ne sont plus parlees couramment que par quelques vieilles personnes vivant en milieu rural. Il n'existe plus a proprement parler de communaute linguistique. Tout ce qui a survecu de ces langues n'existe plus que dans quelques chansons folkloriques, dans quelques terme…
South Asia Workshop The State of Sociology
The metamorphosis of caste among Trinidad Hindus
The discussion on caste among diasporic Hindus is often phrased in terms of a 'retention' versus 'change' hypothesis. Based on a review of literature and field observations in Trinidad, this paper argues that such an antithesis distorts our understanding of caste as a diasporic reality and clouds many of its fascinating nuances. The analysis of change that caste as an integral institution of Hinduism has undergone in Trinidad shows the heuristic …
Heterogeneous Diaspora and Asymmetrical Orientations
Heterogeneous Diaspora and Asymmetrical Orientations
Alain Roux, Le singe et le tigre
We now have a monumental biography of Mao in French: nearly 900 pages of text and 200 pages of notes ! And all this text is not only highly detailed, it is also reliable, generally accurate, and always impartial. Right in the introduction (p. 9), Alain Roux tells the reader that the author of a biography ought to feel some empathy for his subject. Most gratifyingly, this empathy is manifested especially, and most discreetly, at the very end of th…
Frank Dikötter, Mao’s Great Famine, The History of China’s most devastating catastrophe, 1958-62
Frank Dikötter’s work, appearing half a century after the most murderous year (1960), will henceforth be the leading account on the “Great Famine.” Like Jasper Becker’s book, Dikötter’s focuses on describing and conveying to the reader the stark effects of the famine at the local level, whereas a series of other good accounts have concentrated on analysing the decisions and political conflicts at the top of the Communist hierarchy. Unlike Becker,…
Thirty Years of Economic Reform and Workforce Transformation in China
This study starts with the observation that Chinese publications on the workforce refer to two sets of statistics that diverge on a number of points: annual statistical reports take job status into account, while censuses adopt a double classification under branch and type of work. This study seeks to reconcile the two sets of figures to glean a more realistic image of changes in the situation over the last three decades. It shows that China has …
Chinese Medicine and the Enticement of Heritage Status
In November 2010, UNESCO included “Acupuncture and moxibustion as part of Chinese traditional medicine” on its Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. Already in 2006, a national list of oral and intangible masterpieces of heritage was drawn up. Nine of them pertained to medicine and traditional pharmacopoeia. Since then, two other national lists have been compiled, containing medical elements. This article analyses t…
Sociological Bulletin at Sixty
Erik Kjeld Brødsgaard, Hainan – State, Society, and Business in a Chinese Province
Cet ouvrage de Kjeld Erik Brødsgaard, professeur et directeur du centre de recherche sur l’Asie (Asia Research Center, Copenhagen Business School), aborde à travers l’étude détaillée de la province de Hainan à l’ère des réformes, une large palette de sujets, allant des relations entre l’autorité centrale et les autorités provinciales et locales aux stratégies de développement économique de l’île, en passant par les réformes administratives en Chi…
Zhao Yeqin, Construction des espaces urbains et rénovation d’un quartier de Shanghai
des espaces urbains et rnovation d'un quartier de Shanghai: la problmatique de la migration et du changement social (Construction of urban spaces and renovation of a community of Shanghai: The problematic of migration and social change) Shanghai, Shanghai Sanlian Shudian, 430 pp
Julia Lovell, The opium war
Le sujet est certainement l’un des plus rebattus de l’histoire chinoise. De fait, le spécialiste n’apprendra pas grand-chose de neuf dans ce qui est avant tout une synthèse (réussie) des travaux existants. La principale plus-value de ce livre réside dans le fait qu’il propose souvent une perspective élargie que les ouvrages de recherche plus pointus ont parfois tendance à perdre de vue. Ainsi prend-on conscience que la première guerre de l’opium …
Recognising Adoption
This article is based on a survey conducted over two years in Kunming and its vicinity, as well as in the rural areas of Yunnan Province. It considers the relations between administrators (officials) and the administered (families) in the process of adoption procedures. After going over the regular, albeit little noticed, practices of adoption in China, the text analyses the interactions and negotiations that take place, case by case, as families…
The ‘Bombay School’ and Urban Sociology in India
Introduction
Sociology (28 works) · Political science (21 works) · Law (17 works) · Social science (15 works) · Geography (13 works) · Anthropology (11 works) · Economics (11 works) · Philosophy (11 works) · History (10 works) · Art (9 works)