Suchergebnisse

Democracy in the Himalayan region / Vibha Arora and N. Jayaram -- The Adivasi/Janajati movement in Nepal: myths and realities of indigeneity / Gérard Toffin -- The power of script: Phālgunanda's role in the formation of Kiranti ethnicity / Martin Gaenszle -- Refiguring rights, redefining culture: hill council in Kargil, Jammu and Kashmir / Mona Bhan -- The paradox of democracy in the northeast and the eastern Himalayas / Vibna Arora -- Deep democracy or ethnocentrism? : locating voice in the protests against development in northeastern India / Duncan McDuie-Ra -- Democracy through the gun? : challenges of post-conflict reconstruction in conflict-torn Assam / Nel Vandekerckhove --Democratic transition in Jammu and Kashmir: lessons from nature conservation interventions / Saloni Gupta -- Tibetan democracy-in-exile: the 'uniqueness' and limitations of democratic procedures in a territory-less polity / Fiona McConnell -- The ebb and flow of Nepalese democracy / Renske Doorenspleet and Bal Gopal Shrestha -- The changing discourse of social justice in Nepal / Poshendra Satyal Pravat

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This volume includes fourteen essays by eminent sociologists in memory of Ramkrishna Mukherjee (1919-2017), the last of the founding architects of sociology in India. It also includes two interviews with Ramkrishna Mukherjee by senior sociologists. The essays cover a variety of themes and topics close to the works of Ramkrishna Mukherjee: the idea of unitary social science, methodology of social research, the question of facts and values, rural society and social change, social mobility, family and gender, and nationalism. In the two interviews included here Mukherjee clarifies his intellectual trajectory as well as issues of methodology and methods in social research. Overall, this volume endorses his emphasis on the need for social researchers to transcend the 'what' and 'how' to 'why' in the pursuit of sociological knowledge. The volume is a valuable addition to the history of sociology in India. Students of sociology and other social sciences will find it useful as a book of substantive readings on social dynamics; those researching the social world will find in it a useful guide to issues in designing and execution of social research projects