CONTENTS:- Preface; Introduction; Stratification, Mobility and Conflict; Family and Beyond the Family; Social Movement and Agrarian Transformation; Literacy, Culture and Modernity; Religious Pluralism and Political Secularism; Religious Representation of Man and Nature;
DESCRIPTION
This book deals with the issues regarding authenticity, the relation between social anthropology and modernity, the question of what constitutes an intellectual tradition, and the political plenitude of social science concepts which not only capture the intellectual climate in the country but also show the complex interrelation between the emergency of an area of study and the traffic of concepts and concerns between scholars who have been socialized in different tradition of scholarship.