Ideology and Theory in Indian Sociology is a collection of essays which offers
insight into the normative and ideological underpinnings of the Indian sociology
in the context of its growth and the challenges that it has encountered in the
realms of theory and methodology. These issues have been analyzed in the
perspective of the Western Sociology and its own theoretical and methodological
evolution. The book highlights how Indian sociology, despite its deeper linkages
with the theoretical and methodological traditions of the West, has in the
ideological and normative domains evolved successfully its own discourse. The
volume also illustrates the nature of the inner epistemological tensions which
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