Andre Béteille is one of India's leading sociologists and writers. India, officially the Republic of India (भारत गणराज्य inc-Latn Bhārat Gaṇarājya; see also other Indian languages) is a country This article provides a list of sociologists and major contributors to Sociology (even if they did not primarily work as sociologists He is particularly well known for his studies of the caste system in South India. Castes are Hereditary systems of occupation, Endogamy, social culture, Social class, and Political power. South India is the area encompassing India 's states of Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala and Tamil Nadu as well as the union He was a Professor of Sociology at the Delhi School of Economics at the University of Delhi where he is Professor Emeritus of Sociology since 2003. Delhi School of Economics, started in 1949, is a conglomerate of three departments under the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Delhi. The University of Delhi (DU is a central university located at Delhi, India and is funded by Government of India. The meaning of the word professor ( Latin: professor, person who professes to be an expert in some art or science teacher of highest rank) varies Sociology (from Latin: socius "companion" and the suffix -ology "the study of" from Greek λόγος lógos "knowledge" Year 2003 ( MMIII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar.
He received his undergraduate and graduate degrees in anthropology from the University of Calcutta. Formally established on the 24 January 1857, the University of Calcutta (also known as Calcutta University) (কলকাতা বিশ্ববিদ্যালয় Thereafter he received his doctorate from the University of Delhi. The University of Delhi (DU is a central university located at Delhi, India and is funded by Government of India. After a brief stint at the Indian Statistical Institute as a research fellow, he joined the faculty of sociology at the DSE. Indian Statistical Institute (ISI engages in the research teaching and application of Statistics to the Natural sciences and Social sciences.
In his long and distinguished career, he has in the past taught at Oxford University, Cambridge University, the University of Chicago, and the London School of Economics. The University of Oxford (informally "Oxford University" or simply "Oxford" located in the city of Oxford, Oxfordshire, England is the The University of Cambridge (often Cambridge University) located in Cambridge, England, is the second-oldest university in the The University of Chicago is a Private university located principally in the Hyde Park neighborhood of Chicago. The London School of Economics and Political Science, more commonly referred to as The London School of Economics or LSE, is a specialist college of the He is currently Chairman of the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta and of the Indian Council of Social Science Research. The Centre for Studies in Social Sciences Calcutta (CSSSC is an autonomous Research centre devoted to the research and advancement of the Social sciences in Indian Council of Social Science Research ( ICSSR) was established in the year of 1969 by the Government of India to promote research in Social sciences
In the words of historian Ramachandra Guha,
| “ | Béteille has written insightfully about all the major questions of the day: India's encounters with the West, the contest between religion and secularism, the relationship between caste and class, the links between poverty and inequality, the nurturing of public institutions, the role and responsibilities of the intellectual. Ramachandra Guha (1958 -) is an Indian historian and biographer whose research interests have included environment social political and cricket history | ” |
In 2005, Professor Béteille received the Padma Bhushan as a mark of recognition for his work in the field of Sociology. The same year he was appointed a member of the Prime Minister's National Knowledge Commission. On 13th June 2005, the Prime Minister of India, Dr Manmohan Singh, constituted the National Knowledge Commission, as a think-tank charged with considering possible In 2006, following a proposal for increasing caste-based reservations, Andre Beteille quit the Commission in protest. Castes are Hereditary systems of occupation, Endogamy, social culture, Social class, and Political power. In 2006, he was made National Professor.
Béteille was born in Chandannagore - the youngest of three brothers and a sister. Chandannagar, formerly known as Chandernagore or Chandernagar (Chandernagor (চন্দননগর Chôndonnôgor) is a small city and former French His father was mayor of the Chandannagore Municipality. He was educated in Calcutta - where the family shifted after independence. He graduated from St. Xavier's College, Calcutta and joined Delhi School of Economics for further studies. St Xavier's College is located in Kolkata, India, and is named after St
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Bibliography
- Sociology: Essays on Approach and Method, Oxford University Press, 2002.
- Antinomies of Society: Essays on Ideologies and Institutions, Oxford University Press, 2000.
- Chronicles of Our Time, Penguin Books, 2000.
- The Backward Classes in Contemporary India, Oxford University Press, 1992.
- Society and Politics in India: Essays in a Comparative Perspective, Athlone Press, 1991 (L. S. E. Monographs in Social Anthropology, no. 63).
- The Idea of Natural Inequality and Other Essays, Oxford University Press, 1983 (new, enlarged edition, Oxford University Press, 1987).
- Inequality Among Men, Basil Blackwell, 1977 (Italian edition published as La diseguaglianza fra gli uomini, Il Mulino, 1981).
- Studies in Agrarian Social Structure, Oxford University Press, 1974.
- Six Essays in Comparative Sociology, Oxford University Press, 1974 (enlarged edition published as Essays in Comparative Sociology, Oxford University Press, 1987).
- Inequality and Social Change, Oxford University Press, 1972.
- Castes: Old and New, Essays in Social Structure and Social Stratification, Asia Publishing House, 1969.
- Caste, Class and Power: Changing Patterns of Stratification in a Tanjore Village, University of California Press, 1965.
Essays
- Secularism Re-examined
- Race & Caste
- Teaching & Research
- Teaching and Research, Andre Beteille
- Government & NGOs (scroll down)
- The Indian Middle Class
Selected quotes
- "The Indian intelligentsia has somewhat mixed attitudes towards the Indian village. While educated Indians are inclined to think or at least speak well of the village, they do not show much inclination for the company of villagers. "
- "In the past, Indian society was unique in the extremes of which it carried the principle and practice of inequality; today Indian intellectuals appear unique in their zeal for promoting the adoption of equality in every sphere of society. "
- "The vitality of a religion depends on a continuous critique of it by its own reflective members. "
- "A civilisation that cannot accommodate a variety of traditions, seeking to maintain a jealous hold on only one single tradition, can hardly be called a civilisation. "
- "The practice of untouchability is indeed reprehensible and must be condemned by one and all; but that does not mean that we should now begin to regard it as a form of racial discrimination. The Scheduled Castes of India taken together are no more a race than are the Brahmins taken together. Every social group cannot be regarded as a race simply because we want to protect it against prejudice and discrimination. "[1]
- "Treating caste as a form of race is politically mischievous; what is worse, it is scientifically nonsensical"[2]
See also
References
- The Wisest Man In India by Ramchandra Guha. Partha Chatterjee is an internationally renowned Subaltern Studies and Postcolonial scholar Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak (born February 24 1942) is an Indian Literary critic and theorist. Dipesh Chakrabarty is a Bengali Historian from India who has also made contributions to Postcolonial theory and subaltern studies
- Andre quits the knowledge commission - CNN-IBN news report
- A long view of two Indian social scientists
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