On Sociology in/of India: Toward a Discursive Deviation

Hegde, Sasheej

doi:10.2307/3517445

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“…It seems that despite reservations in educational institutions and government jobs which membership in the OBC category provides, this categorisation itself opened an avenue for political mobilisation rather than effecting changes in the distribution of access to resources. My findings endorse the understanding that reservation was more an instrument of governance, a mechanism for social and political representation and means of political self-constitution than a means for social justice (Hegde 2015: 41; Tharu et al 2007: 39).…”

Section: Conclusion: Everyday Violence Reporting Caste Conflicts Stat...supporting

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‘Most Backward Castes’, State Neglect and Rage: Violence in Rural North India

Jassal

2023

Contributions to Indian Sociology

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Complaints filed in Indian police stations offer a unique lens on the marginality and violence experienced by a range of castes recognised as Other Backward Classes (OBC), beneficiaries of the state’s reservation policies. Focusing on reports registered by a caste group within the OBC category, this article illuminates two separate forms of violent conflict: inter-caste conflicts over scarce resources within the Nishad/Mallah caste and their competition and strife with other upwardly mobile disadvantaged groups. The failure of the state to offer vulnerable groups protection is a critical element in the marginality experienced by low-caste non-Dalit groups.

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Section: Conclusion: Everyday Violence Reporting Caste Conflicts Stat...supporting

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‘Most Backward Castes’, State Neglect and Rage: Violence in Rural North India

Jassal

2023

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“…The varied interplay of the two has led to the contested constitution of the disciplinary frameworks of sociological knowledge in different national settings. Hegde (1989Hegde ( , 2011aHegde ( , 2011b has consistently argued that our preoccupation with these characteristics has very often discouraged us from looking at sociology as a problem in the history of ideas. 4 The excessive reliance on contemporaneity in the making of our disciplinary agendas has surely kept us away from developing a critical language to do disciplinary history.…”

Section: Sociology Of Knowledge and Its Limitsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Sociological traditions

Thakur¹

2014

Contributions to Indian Sociology

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The sociological traditions in India have yet to find their historian. T.N. Madan (2011b: xiii) Students of sociology are likely to come across synoptic accounts of the 'Lucknow School' in courses relating to the growth and development of sociology in India. Most, if not all, may find names such as Radhakamal Mukerjee, D.P. Mukerji and D.N. Majumdar, the 'three Ms' as T.N. Madan (2013: 3) calls them in his recently edited volume entitled Sociology at the University of Lucknow: The First Half Century (1921-1975, 1 somehow familiar. This familiarity, though, does not presuppose any serious understanding on their part of the substantive works of the Lucknow sociologists. Preliminary ideas about Radhakamal Mukerjee's work in the field of social ecology, or D.P. Mukerji's stress on the study of tradition, or D.N. Majumdar's ethnographic work among tribes, or A.K. Saran's repartee to Louis Dumont, is all that one can generally expect. Given the general amnesia surrounding the works of the pioneers at Lucknow, Madan's volume is a noteworthy contribution to the recent attempts at retrieving

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“…Particular explanations for the recurrence of this class of argument are not hard to find. I myself suggested, in a paper published long ago (Hegde 1989), that, while it is comforting to do a sociology of knowledge, it is necessary to go beyond simple assertions about the existential deter-mination of knowledge, and that the thrust should be to provide a glimpse of the logic (both epistemic and 'practical') pervading the discipline of sociology in India. I worked through various analyses and assessments of the sociology in and of India and, rather than viewing these accounts as reflecting the opinions of their authors, took them as embodying the dispositions, strategies and ways of perceiving reality that are taken for granted within the discipline.…”

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confidence: 99%