Paper II Competing Perspective on Indian
Society
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Unit I: Introduction-brief overview of Sociology
in India
• Schools of Sociology in India with special
focus on the Bombay “School”
• Approaches: Indological, Civilizational,
Historical and Field-work
• ‘Indianizing’ and ‘Indigenizing’Sociology
• Non-Brahmin Perspectives on Indian Society
Unit II: Theorizing Caste
• Ambedkar’s theorizing of Caste and the‘Caste Question’
• Dumontian and Post-Dumontianapproaches to theorizing Caste
• Gender and Caste (Gail Omvedt, Leela Dubeand Sharmila Rege)
• Caste Today: Power, Hierarchy, Difference
and Identity (works of Beteille, D.
Unit III: Constructing the Nation and
Nationalism
• Nation as spiritual and Political (ParthaChatterjee)
• Critique of the “Project Homogenization” (TK Oommen)
• Nationalism sans Nation (G Aloysius)
• Women and Nationalist Discourse (Victim,
Mata and Sevika) (Tanika Sarkar
Unit IV: Critical Perspectives on complex
Social Transformation: Globalization
and Indian society
• Social Consequences of changing
State-Market relations: Education, health,
• Traditional Hierarchies in Globalizing
Society: Multiple, Intersecting and complex
• Economic Transformations and Tribal
Communities: Marginalization, claims and
• Identity Politics: Region, religion, class
as contexts of homogenized and
