Sasheej Hegde is grateful to the authors Gopal Guru and Sundar Sarukkai for their lively participation in a symposium on the book organised by the Department of Sociology, University of Hyderabad on 3 March 2020, which also oversaw a critical input from Aseem Prakash of Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Hyderabad and Parthasarathi Muthukaruppan of English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad. The event was, fortunately, just before the COVID-19 disruption, although the latter explains largely the delay in our rendition. This paper also celebrates the over three decades of friendship between its two authors and, even as it bears the brunt of a writing style intrinsic to one of them, the foray marks their shared interests and concerns, at once analytical, ethical and political (of the order of “maitri” as encapsulated in Experience, Caste, and the Everyday Social ).
Sasheej Hegde is grateful to the authors Gopal Guru and Sundar Sarukkai for their lively participation in a symposium on the book organised by the Department of Sociology, University of Hyderabad on 3 March 2020, which also oversaw a critical input from Aseem Prakash of Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Hyderabad and Parthasarathi Muthukaruppan of English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad. The event was, fortunately, just before the COVID-19 disruption, although the latter explains largely the delay in our rendition. This paper also celebrates the over three decades of friendship between its two authors and, even as it bears the brunt of a writing style intrinsic to one of them, the foray marks their shared interests and concerns, at once analytical, ethical and political (of the order of “maitri” as encapsulated in
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Dhirubhai Sheth and the Political Incorrectness of Being
Rajni Kothari and Dhirubhai Sheth s founding of the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies in 1964 had great consequences for the future of Indian democracy and academia.
DL Sheth and his wife, Surabhi Sheth. Photo: Special Arrangement
Media11/May/2021
Over one hundred years ago, two Gujaratis met in London â Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi and Muhammad Ali Jinnah. Two more contrasting personalities could not be imagined and the fallout for the Indian subcontinent was contained in that epic encounter.
Some 50 years later, another set of Gujaratis would meet with consequences that were creative for Indian democracy and the Indian academy. Â Political scientist Rajni Kothari and sociologist Dhiru Lal Sheth came together with a few other intellectuals, to author a novel experiment that would be called âThe Centreâ (The Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, CSDS) in 1964. Ashis Nandy and Giri Deshingk
Caste s Potential to Subvert Hegemonic Tropes Across the World
In Caste: The Origins of our Discontents , Isabel Wilkerson looks at society through the lens of its pervasive oppression.
Coloured drinking fountain, Oklahoma, 1939. Photo: Wikimedia Commons
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