Aditya -- This book can be easily purchased in India, it's published here -- any good bookseller. If you're in Bangalore, try Premier. Carol
----- Original Message ----- From: Aditya Kapil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wednesday, December 12, 2007 1:33 pm Subject: Re: [silk] Failure of Sociology in India? To: silklist@lists.hserus.net > I would certainly not find this boring. Can I buy it in India? Or > do I have > to Amazon it. An ethnomethodologist friend is visiting, I'd like > to buy him > a copy too. > Adit. > > On Dec 12, 2007 1:16 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > May I recommend a recently published book -- Anthropology in the > East> edited by Patricia Uberoi et al (Permanent Black, 2007). > It's a collection > > of articles about important figures in the history of Indian > sociology / > > social anthropology, and one of its purposes was to make a > beginning at > > trying to understand the reasons for the sorry state of the > discipline, by > > tracing its history. I also have a piece in this volume, in > which I try to > > understand certain aspects of the discipline by looking at the > work of one > > of the founding 'fathers', GS Ghurye. But you might find such a > tome rather > > boring! > > > > Carol > > > > > > >