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Book Review: T.K. Oommen (ed.), Social Movements I: Issues of Identity and T.K. Oommen (ed.), Social Movements II: Concerns of Equity and Security
In: Contributions to Indian sociology, Band 47, Heft 1, S. 147-152
ISSN: 0973-0648
Interrogations from the Margins: Conversion as Critique
In: History and sociology of South Asia, Band 5, Heft 2, S. 83-102
ISSN: 2249-5312
There are several common approaches to understanding religious conversion and correspondingly various ways of responding to it: as change, as subversion, as atrocity, as freedom. In our pluri-religious society, all of these must be contained in our Constitutional democratic secularism, affirmed both as the Nehruvian dharma nirapekshata, and the Gandhian sarvadharma samabhava, equal distance, and equal respect. These common approaches are often at odds and do not present an integrated or holistic understanding. While religious commitment is essentially a matter of personal conscience and freedom of choice, it inevitably impacts other areas and levels of individual and social life. In attempting a holistic approach here, we distinguish four levels of understanding: the psycho-social, the sociocultural, the eco-political, the socio-religious. Conversion as critique is invariably associated with resistance and rebellion, dissent and protest. It includes a spectrum of possibilities both in analysis and interpretation as well as in response and action.
Felix Padel, Sacrificing People: Invasions of a Tribal Landscape (new and updated version with a new foreword by Hugh Broody). New Delhi: Orient Blackswan, 2009. xxxvii + 465 pp. Maps, notes, glossary, bibliography, index. Rs 750 (hardback)
In: Contributions to Indian sociology, Band 45, Heft 1, S. 125-128
ISSN: 0973-0648
Peuple heureux ou grande puissance ?
In: Projet: civilisation, travail, économie, Band 310, Heft 3, S. 52-60
ISSN: 2108-6648
Resumé La spectaculaire croissance économique de l'Inde n'a pas réduit la pauvreté. Pour combler le fossé qui s'élargit entre les bénéficiaires de la mondialisation et la masse des laissés pour compte, deux visions du développement s'affrontent.
Book reviews and notices : BENJAMIN J. ISRAEL, The Jews of India. New Delhi: Mosaic Books, 1998. viii + 149 pp. Tables, notes, bibliography, index. Rs. 250 (paperback)
In: Contributions to Indian sociology, Band 34, Heft 2, S. 283-283
ISSN: 0973-0648
Subaltern alternatives on caste, class and ethnicity
In: Contributions to Indian sociology, Band 34, Heft 1, S. 37-62
ISSN: 0973-0648
The challenges to the dominant hegemony in this land have focused on the key issues of equity and justice that underlie the quest for identity and dignity. Setting these in a more integrated and holistic context we focus on three crucial issues: caste and hierarchy, caste and class, and caste and ethnicity. We conclude with some more important leads which could be further pursued: a sub-altern hermeneutic, a new understanding of the fragmen tation and shift in our present electoral politics, and the dilemmas of intervention by the state, social movements and market mechanisms. In sum, subaltern alternatives do repre sent a horizon of revolt and revolution, which can fuse with others to construct the identi ties and ideologies for a brave new world.
Book reviews and notices : T.K. OoMMEN, Citizenship, nationality and ethnicity: Reconciling competing identities. Cambridge: Polity Press, 1997
In: Contributions to Indian sociology, Band 33, Heft 1-2, S. 441-442
ISSN: 0973-0648
Transition and Transformation : The Opposition between Industrial and Pre-Industrial Types of Society in the Writings of Karl Marx, Ferdinand Tonnies, Emile Durkheim and Max Weber
In: Sociological bulletin: journal of the Indian Sociological Society, Band 35, Heft 1, S. 29-43
ISSN: 2457-0257
Mobile and marginalized peoples: perspectives from the past
Contributed papers presented earlier at a workshop