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M.N.Srinivas

Mysore Narasimhachar srinivas is one of the fouding fathers of sociology and social anthropology in India.he earned his dgree doctrate in sociooloy from the university of bomabay and went on to the university of oxford for further studies.The corpus of his writings is quite large.Apart from publishing and writing anout twenty books,he is credited to writing as many as a hundred and fifty papers ,articles,notes..etc. During his long academc career spaning 60 years he published small collections of some of the these texts: "Caste in Modern India and Other Essays"(1962),"The Dominant Caste and Other Essays(1987),"The Cohesive Role Of Sanskritization and Other Essays"(1989),"On living in a Revolution and Other essays"(1992) , "Village, Caste, Gender and Method"(1996)and "The Indian Society through personal writings"(1997).

He was a pioneer of village studies in India.He concluded extensive firldwork in Rampura and wrote extensively on it,including his magnum opus"The Remembered Village".His conception Dominant caste also emerged from this study.He also encouraged almost an entire new era of Indian ,sociological,soccial anthropological and indological scholars to conduct field studiesin village and generated debates and discussions on many aspects of village life in India."The Indian Village:Myth and Reality"(by M.N.Srinivas) is and excellent account of these debates and Srinivas's stand and perspective on the nature of village community in India.Srinivas's knowledge on caste is highly intensive,perhaps his scholarly ability on the caste system was peerless in the context of his timeframe.He was one off the few academicians who wrote autobiographical accounts in considerable detail.

Srinivas's rich literature on caste,gender,village ans social change throw light on the various aspects of the diversity of Indian culture,society.Besides rich substance,his works were jargon free and lucid style,often marked with wit and humor,that attract not just an...