New Royal Book Company

Indian Anthropology

About Book - This is one of the most popular books published on Indian Anthropology. Originally published in English, it is now available in several Indian languages.
Beginning with a discussion on the origin and development of anthropology in India, it takes the readers into Indian prehistory. Taking up the issues of social change in India it describes and analyses various concepts and theories dealing with social change in India viz. Sanskritization, Westernization, Modernization, Secularization and Dominant Caste. Understanding cultural process of Indian Civilization has always been an important issue. This has been undertaken by describing and analysing such concepts as 'Great and Little Tradition', Universa-lization and Parochialization, Folk-Urban Continuum and Tribe-Caste Continuum in simple language. Same treatment has been given to traditional Bases of Indian Social System under which concepts such as Purushartha, Ashrama, Rina, Varna and Jati, Dharma and Karma. Besides these a number of issues such as crises and issues in Indian anthropology, urban anthropology in India, Indian Museum and Museology have also been discussed.
Thus, the present book shall interest not only students of Indian society in sociology and anthropology but also persons intrested in Indian Society in general because of different reasons.

 

About Author - Nadeem Hasnain is a Professor of Social Anthropology in Lucknow University (India). A well known teacher, researcher and activist, he has published twelve books and several research papers in reputed journals. He is also editor of The Eastern Anthropologist and Islam and Muslim Societies : A Social Science Journal. He has also been Fulbright Scholar in Residence in USA and taught at St. Lawrence University, New York, for two years. He also writes for popular magazines and newspapers in English, Hindi and Urdu and participates in panel discussion on TV Channels.
Currently, Prof. Hasnain is Pro Vice-Chancellor of Mahatma Gandhi International Hindi University (A Central University) and based at Wardha in Maharashtra.

 

ISBN : 978-81-89267-99-5
Price : INR 650/-