Upadhya, Carol (2002) The Hindu Nationalist Sociology of G S Ghurye. Sociological Bulletin, 51 (1). pp. 27-56. ISSN 0038-0229
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| Abstract: | This paper situates the thought of G.S. Ghurye within its intellectual and political context in order to reflect on the framing of a sociological discourse about Indian society by the first post-colonial generation of Indian academic sociologists. While Ghurye incorporated the Orientalist rendering of Indian history and society in his work, he turned this discourse around to develop a cultural nationalist sociology that rejects some of the premises of colonial knowledge. However, Ghurye’s brand of sociology, by building itself around a particular understanding of Indian civilisation and ‘Indian culture’, emerges finally as an elaboration on a narrow Hindu/Brahmanical nationalist ideology that advocates cultural unity and nation-building rather than political and economic emancipation. |
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| Item Type: | Journal Paper |
| Additional Information: | Copyright belongs the author. This work was done by the author as a faculty of SNDT Women's University |
| Subjects: | School of Social Sciences > Sociology |
| Divisions: | Schools > Social Sciences |
| Date Deposited: | 06 Sep 2017 06:33 |
| Last Modified: | 06 Sep 2017 06:33 |
| Official URL: | http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/003802... |
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| DOI: | DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0038022920020102 |
| URI: | http://eprints.nias.res.in/id/eprint/1337 |
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