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Chronicles of Our Time

 
Andre Beteille (Author)
Synopsis Though-provoking and insightful essays on the state of the nation focusing on social and political realities which will provoke debate for years to come. This book begins with the subject of the individual's quest for identity. In articles that describe the ways in which intellectuals relate to ideologies within the framework of academia. The focus then shifts to social justice, and Beteille outlines the contradictions inherent in the Indian context between the ideal of equality and the practice of inequality. A subsequent section is devoted to caste, tribe and religion, three aspects that continue to constitute the morphology of Indian society inspite of legal, political and secularist interventions. In the sections that follow, Beteille examines contentious issues like reservations and affirmative action; political, economic and legal empowerment; the destabilization of institutions in contemporary India; and the question of modernization with its perceived threat to traditional values. Over the past thirty years, Andre Beteille, one of India's most eminent sociologists, has written a series of articles for the editorial pages of the Times of India. Encapsulating the complexities of academic discourse within the concise framework of a newspaper articles, these writings provide a telling on the social, political and economic life of India in the eventful decades of the later twentieth century. Collected and published in book form for the first time, Beteille's view on post-Nehruvian India will be of interest to general readers and social scientists alike.
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About the author

Andre Beteille

Andre Beteille was a founder-member of the Department of Sociology of the Delhi School of Economics where he was Professor of Sociology till 1999. He has held visiting appointments at Cambridge, the London School of Economics, Erasmus University, Rotterdam and various other institutions in Europe and America. He was also a Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study, Berlin and a Visiting Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities, Edinburgh. He was a Jawaharlal Nehru Fellow from 1968 to 1970, and received the Jawaharlal Nehru National Award of the Government of Madhya Pradesh in 1994. Apart from his newspaper articles, he has published extensively in scholarly periodicals in India and abroad. His books include Caste, Class and Power, Studies in Agrarian Social Structure, Society and Politics in India and Chronicles of Our Time.

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Bibliographic information

Title Chronicles of Our Time
Format Hardcover
Date published: 01.01.2000
Edition 1st ed.
Language: English
isbn 0140296999
length xx+361p., 20cm.