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Social Theorizing in Contemporary India : Critique, Creativity, and Transformations
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Social Theorizing in Contemporary India : Critique, Creativity, and Transformations
This book is a comprehensive guide to social theorizing in India. The volume presents the vision, works, and intellectual biographies of fifty-plus important thinkers and social theorists from contemporary India as well as explores theoretical implications of some social movements and movements of ideas. It analyses and critiques works of philosophers, social scientists, creative writers, and social theorists such as Daya Krishna, J.N.
Mohanty, B.K. Matilal, K.N. Raj, M.N.
Srinivas, Leela Dube, Irawati Karve, Amartya Sen, Andre Beteille, J.P.S. Uberoi, T.K. Oommen, Ashis Nandy, Chitta Ranjan Das, and Manoj Das, among others.
Social Theorizing in Contemporary India cultivates a transdisciplinary approach to social theorizing in contemporary India, broadening our understanding and introducing new approaches to social theorizing in India and the world. It carries out planetary conversations with social theorists from India, understanding them in dialogue with Western social theory and theorizing from other parts of the world. A pioneering work in Indian social theorizing and planetary conversations, Social Theorizing in Contemporary India will be of great interest to scholars and students of social sciences, humanities, South Asian studies, global studies, and planetary thinking.
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| To be released | March 8, 2027 |
| ISBN13 | 9781032444437 |
| Publishers | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Pages | 1112 |
| Dimensions | 150 × 220 × 20 mm · 453 g |
