Social Transformation in India: Essays in Honour of Professor I. P. Desai

1 INTRODUCTION: I.P. Desai and Social Transformation
2 I.P. Desai and the Sociology of India
3 Social Policy, ‘Development’ and Democracy
4 Changing Values in India Today
5 Social Movements and the Paradigm of Functional Analysis
6 Social Processes and Dimensions of Indian Nationalism
7 Rural Development and Human Rights of Agrarian Poor in Independent India
8 Usury in Western India: State Policy and Peasant Resistance, 1876-1947
9 The Artisanal Origins of Surat’s Contemporary Industrialization, 1870-1950
10 The Future of Caste in India: A Dialogue
11 The Judicial and the Sociological View of the Other Backward Classes
12 A Town, A Caste, and Two Decades of Capitalist Transformation in South Gujarat
13 Caste in Changing Society: A Study of Kolis of South Gujarat
14 Social Change and the Marriage System of the Anavil Brahmans of South Gujarat
15 Sociology of Dalit Autobiography
16 Office without de facto Power: A Study of Social Justice Committee in Gujarat
17 Caste, Class and Violence in Rural India
18 Genesis of Tribal Problem
19 Gender Dimension in Family Studies
20 Reconstituting Private Life: The Making of the Modern Family in Bengal
21 Labour Nomads in South Gujarat: Wage Hunters and Gatherers
22 Trade Unions and Class Mobilization of Workers: Towards a Theory of Social Polarization and Mobilization
23 The Political Economy of Places of Worship
24 Children of the Same God: A Spiritual Approach to Social Transformation
25 The Concept of the Desired Type of Society and the Problems of Social Change