Ideology and Social Science

Author: Andre BeteillePublisher: PenguinYear: 2006Language: EnglishPages: 274ISBN/UPC (if available): 0143062018 DescriptionOne of the pioneers of sociological studies in India, Professor André Béteille has, over the past four decades, contributed a series of topical and stimulating articles to various newspapers. Some of these articles were collected in the book Chronicles of Our Time, published a few years ago. Ideology and Social Science is a new and riveting collection of Professor Béteille’s writings on Indian society, politics and culture.The fifty articles in this book cover a very wide range of subjects: from the practice of sociology to the prospects of political liberalism, from contemporary debates about caste and caste quotas to old and still persisting myths about what is said to constitute the essence of Indian culture. Béteille’s ambit includes the relevant and important themes of secularism, diversity and unity in cultures, the culture of tolerance, discrimination at wo