about sociologist !!

1. Indian
sociologist
Evolution of sociology and sociology
Anthropology in india….
1. In India, intrest in sociological ways of
thinking is a little more than a century old, but
formal university teaching of sociology only
began in 1919 at the university of bombay.
2. In the 1920s , two other university – those at
calcutta and lukhnow – also began programme
of teaching and research in the sociology and
anthropology.
3. Today, every major university has a
dapartment of sociology, social anthropology or
anthropoly , and often more than one of these
dicipline is represented.

2. The specificity of the dicipline of sociology in
Indian context raised many question….
1. First of all , if western sociology
emerged as a attempt to make sense
modernity, what would its role be in a
country like India ?
India , too , was of course experiencing the
change brought about by modernity but
with an important difference – it was a
colony . The first experience of modernity in
india was closely interwined with the
experience of colonial subjugation.
2. Secondly, if social anthropology in the
west arose out of the curiosity felt by
european society about primitive culture ,
what role could it have in india, which was
an ancient and advanced civilisation , but

3. which also , had “primitive” societies
within?
3. Finally, what useful role could sociology
have in a sovereign, independent india, a
nation about to begin its advanture with
planned development and democracy ?
The pioneers of indian sociology not only
had to find their own answer to question
like these ,they also had to formulate new
question for themselves . It was only
through the experience of ‘doing’ sociology
is an indian context that the question took
shape-they were not available ‘readyment’.