Alien Concepts and South Asian Reality

Download or read book Alien Concepts and South Asian Reality written by T K Oommen and published by SAGE Publications Pvt. Limited. This book was released on 1995-12-18 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Oommen (sociology, Jawaharial Nehru U., New Delhi) challenges the assumption that Indian social science is a mere offshoot of western or Marxian theories. He presents responses to five major western concepts, and reformulates some of them into Indian themes such as the nature of the political mobilization of the agrarian classes, the juxtaposition of movements and institutions, the theory of alienation, and the relationship between Hinduism and economic development. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR