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Authors:Johannes Bronkhorst Pages: 247 - 271 Abstract: Contributions to Indian Sociology, Volume 56, Issue 3, Page 247-271, October 2022. How did the belief in rebirth and karmic retribution come into existence' W. D. Whitney called it ‘one of the most difficult questions in the religious history of India’, and Richard Salomon described it, a century later, as ‘the single greatest problem of Indological studies’. Scholars have proposed textual continuities leading up to texts that give expression to this belief, but questions can be and have been raised about such continuities. Worse, these studies do not deal with the observation made by A. B. Keith almost a century ago, viz., that ‘while the ideas thus recorded are of some value … the importance of transmigration lies precisely in the fact that the doctrine is an ethical system’. The one scholar who fully recognises the importance of ethicisation is Gananath Obeyesekere. Unfortunately, his theory is based on some disputable assumptions, which weaken it, as they weaken Richard Seaford’s theory, which builds on Obeyesekere’s ideas. This article offers an altogether different approach that puts this belief in line with beliefs that accompanied the appearance of social complexity elsewhere in the world. Citation: Contributions to Indian Sociology PubDate: 2023-02-10T04:53:35Z DOI: 10.1177/00699667221148668 Issue No:Vol. 56, No. 3 (2023)
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Authors:Abhik Bhattacharya Pages: 272 - 298 Abstract: Contributions to Indian Sociology, Volume 56, Issue 3, Page 272-298, October 2022. The subaltern turn in historiography has changed the way we read history/histories. The omissions and silence(s) that happen at the stage of ‘fact creation’ provide us with a way of looking into how events become facts. Taking cues from the sociological and historical understanding of silencing, this article examines the process through which Muslim voices have been silenced in the historiography of Jharkhand’s statehood movement (the Jharkhand Andolan). While going through the mainstream accounts on this subject, what I encountered was a significant lack of discussion about the Muslim presence in the movement. This lack becomes visible in contrast to the accounts in the vernacular newspapers that recount how Muslims have been an integral part of the statehood struggle. Through personal interviews of Muslim Andolankaris (freedom fighters) conducted during my fieldwork along with the documents collected from their personal archives, I show how the subduing of Muslim voices was enabled by Jharkhand’s political parties and carried over to the common narration of the movement’s formation and history. Citation: Contributions to Indian Sociology PubDate: 2023-02-10T04:53:35Z DOI: 10.1177/00699667221147075 Issue No:Vol. 56, No. 3 (2023)
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Authors:Shiv Visvanathan, Chandrika Parmar Pages: 299 - 311 Abstract: Contributions to Indian Sociology, Volume 56, Issue 3, Page 299-311, October 2022. The essay argues for an exploration of alternative worldviews and a search for a different set of categories. It proposes that the classic ‘for a Sociology of India’ debate draw upon Ziauddin Sardar’s essays on the post normal society. Sardar explores a sociology of complexity, chaos and contradiction, thus calling for an epistemic examination of the relation between science and society, which in turn anticipates a set of thought experiments on the future of the Anthropocene. Citation: Contributions to Indian Sociology PubDate: 2023-02-10T04:53:37Z DOI: 10.1177/00699667221148629 Issue No:Vol. 56, No. 3 (2023)
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Authors:Ananta Kumar Giri Pages: 312 - 325 Abstract: Contributions to Indian Sociology, Volume 56, Issue 3, Page 312-325, October 2022. Area Studies was an important way of studying different parts of the world after the Second World War that was promoted by US-European academic establishments. This construction emerged after the end of the Second World War and reflected the geopolitical construction of the world into different areas. It formed part of the Cold War environment, applying American social science tools to regional analysis. This essay argues that we rethink and transform such a geopolitical construction of Area Studies. It suggests that we critically engage with the epistemologies of the Euro-American world that lie behind such Area Studies projects in order to transform Area Studies and consider the claims of cosmopolitanism and planetary conversations across borders. Citation: Contributions to Indian Sociology PubDate: 2023-02-10T04:53:34Z DOI: 10.1177/00699667231152284 Issue No:Vol. 56, No. 3 (2023)
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Authors:Andrew Flachs Pages: 326 - 328 Abstract: Contributions to Indian Sociology, Volume 56, Issue 3, Page 326-328, October 2022. Aniket Aga. 2021. Genetically Modified Democracy: Transgenic Crops in Contemporary India. New Haven and London: Yale University Press. 328 pp. Notes, references, index. $65 (hardback—ISBN: 9780300245905) Citation: Contributions to Indian Sociology PubDate: 2023-02-10T04:53:33Z DOI: 10.1177/00699667221148698 Issue No:Vol. 56, No. 3 (2023)
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Authors:Kiran Kumbhar Pages: 329 - 331 Abstract: Contributions to Indian Sociology, Volume 56, Issue 3, Page 329-331, October 2022. Bharat Jayram Venkat. 2021. At the Limits of Cure. Durham: Duke University Press. 304 pp. Figures, bibliography, index. $27.95 (paperback—ISBN: 9781478014720) Citation: Contributions to Indian Sociology PubDate: 2023-02-10T04:53:36Z DOI: 10.1177/00699667221148648 Issue No:Vol. 56, No. 3 (2023)
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Authors:Raphael Susewind Pages: 331 - 333 Abstract: Contributions to Indian Sociology, Volume 56, Issue 3, Page 331-333, October 2022. Shannon Philip. 2022. Becoming Young Men in a New India: Masculinities, Gender Relations and Violence in the Postcolony. New Delhi: Cambridge University Press. xii + 197 pp. Appendix, references, index. ₹795 (hardback—ISBN: 9781009158718) Citation: Contributions to Indian Sociology PubDate: 2023-02-10T04:53:36Z DOI: 10.1177/00699667221148689 Issue No:Vol. 56, No. 3 (2023)
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Authors:Shivani Rajput Pages: 333 - 336 Abstract: Contributions to Indian Sociology, Volume 56, Issue 3, Page 333-336, October 2022. Sreedeep Bhattacharya. 2020. Consumerist Encounters: Flirting with Things and Images. New Delhi: Oxford University Press. 292 pp. Figures, references, index. ₹1695 (hardback—ISBN 9780190125561) Citation: Contributions to Indian Sociology PubDate: 2023-02-10T04:53:37Z DOI: 10.1177/00699667221148702 Issue No:Vol. 56, No. 3 (2023)
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Authors:Smriti Sikri Pages: 337 - 339 Abstract: Contributions to Indian Sociology, Volume 56, Issue 3, Page 337-339, October 2022. Mahuya Bandyopadhyay and Rimple Mehta, eds. 2022. Women, Incarcerated: Narratives from India. Hyderabad: Orient Black Swan. 356 pp. 1210 (paperback—ISBN: 9789354421884) Citation: Contributions to Indian Sociology PubDate: 2023-02-10T04:53:36Z DOI: 10.1177/00699667221148700 Issue No:Vol. 56, No. 3 (2023)
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Authors:Uday Chandra Pages: 340 - 342 Abstract: Contributions to Indian Sociology, Volume 56, Issue 3, Page 340-342, October 2022. Erik de Maaker. 2021. Reworking Culture: Relatedness, Rites, and Resources in Garo Hills, North East India. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press. 328 pp. Maps, glossary, figures, notes, references, index. ₹1695 (hardback—ISBN: 9788194831693) Citation: Contributions to Indian Sociology PubDate: 2023-02-10T04:53:37Z DOI: 10.1177/00699667221148706 Issue No:Vol. 56, No. 3 (2023)
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Authors:Subhadeepta Ray Pages: 342 - 345 Abstract: Contributions to Indian Sociology, Volume 56, Issue 3, Page 342-345, October 2022. Renny Thomas. 2022. Science and Religion in India: Beyond Disenchantment. Oxon and New York: Routledge. 214 pp. Figures, notes, bibliography, index. £36.99 (eBook—ISBN: 9781003213475) Citation: Contributions to Indian Sociology PubDate: 2023-02-10T04:53:39Z DOI: 10.1177/00699667221150481 Issue No:Vol. 56, No. 3 (2023)
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Authors:Thanzeel Nazer Pages: 345 - 347 Abstract: Contributions to Indian Sociology, Volume 56, Issue 3, Page 345-347, October 2022. Jayaseelan Raj. 2022. Plantation Crisis: Ruptures of Dalit life in the Indian Tea Belt. London: UCL Press. 256 pp. Figures, maps, tables, appendix, references, index. £40 (hardback—ISBN: 9781800082298) Citation: Contributions to Indian Sociology PubDate: 2023-02-10T04:53:37Z DOI: 10.1177/22779779221150872 Issue No:Vol. 56, No. 3 (2023)
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