Pub Date : 2021-10-01DOI: 10.1177/00380229211051036
M. Ilias
There is a major assumption regarding the politics of the neo-Salafis in South India (especially in Kerala) widely shared in the political, media and academic circles; their everyday life and religiosity do not provide a conscious address to things such as state and politics and they are confined to the social and religious sphere rather than the political one . The recurring question in this study is, therefore, how to make sense of the political expressions of a group, which apparently shows no direct inclination towards the ‘mainstream’ politics. This study also tries to address the ambiguity about the role of Salafi ideology in everyday conduct of politics among the neo-Salafis. What is the position of Salafism in the scheme of political thinking and how it relates to the political imagination of neo-Salafis, are examined taking cues from the experience of some of the neo-Salafist groups, which keep a strong open disbelief in the secular polity.
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Pub Date : 2021-09-17DOI: 10.1177/00380229211030718
Shailendra Kumar
The emergence of a large and prosperous Indian diaspora across the globe obscures the fact that it is not a homogeneous and monolithic whole but is representative of the diversity of India. The Dalit diaspora emerged simultaneously but separately with a strong consciousness and commitment to ameliorate caste disabilities both at home and in the host land. One can discern a perceptible influence of Dr Ambedkar’s dictum ‘educate, organise and agitate’ on Dalits. Therefore, the educated Dalits have organised themselves through various international organisations and are agitating against caste discrimination, in the process carving out a dignified identity for themselves. This article delves into the emergence and activism of the numerous international organisations and institutions working on Dalit issues in diasporic locations. It specifically analyses the attempts to incorporate caste as descent-based discrimination within the ambit of racism at various international forums and its inclusion as protected characteristics within the Equality Act, 2010, of the UK. These efforts have been successful in challenging the caste hegemony at both local and global levels and are a step forward towards its eradication.
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Pub Date : 2021-07-01DOI: 10.1177/00380229211018979
A. Das
Praveen Jha et al. (Eds.), Labouring Women: Issues and Challenges in Contemporary India. Orient BlackSwan, 2020, 328 pp., ₹651 (paperback). ISBN 978-93-90122-07-3.
Pub Date : 2021-07-01DOI: 10.1177/00380229211014671
N. Jayaram
This essay is a tribute to the memory of Partha Nath Mukherji (1940–2021), the past President of the Indian Sociological Society (2004–2005). After briefly tracing his scholarly career, it provides an overview of his sociological contributions spanning almost six decades. His oeuvre covered a variety of themes and issues, both empirical and theoretical, which can be categorised under the following rubrics: social movements and social change, sociology of agrarian relations, democratic decentralisation and panchayats, nationalism and nation-building, research methodology, indigenisation of the social sciences, regional (South Asian) sociology, and the question of approach and relevance in Indian sociology.
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Pub Date : 2021-07-01DOI: 10.1177/00380229211017054
S. Sahoo
S. Sitharaman and A. Chakrabarti (Eds.), Religion and Secularities: Reconfiguring Islam in Contemporary India. Hyderabad, India: Orient BlackSwan, 2020, vii–222 pp, ₹795 (hardback). ISBN 9789390122004.
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{"title":"Book review: Partha Chatterjee et al. (Eds.), After the Revolution","authors":"Prasanta Chakravarty","doi":"10.1177/00380229211016394","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00380229211016394","url":null,"abstract":"Partha Chatterjee et al. (Eds.), After the Revolution. New Delhi: Orient Blackswan, 2020, 314pp. (Paperback). ISBN: 978-93-90122-75-2.","PeriodicalId":39369,"journal":{"name":"The Sociological Bulletin","volume":"70 1","pages":"429 - 431"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/00380229211016394","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42682619","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-07-01DOI: 10.1177/00380229211020568
A. Pandey
K. Seeta Prabhu and S. Parasuraman (Ed.), Making Development Happen: Transformational Change in Rural India, Volume I. Orient BlackSwan, 2020, xxv + 328 pp., ₹1095 (hardback). ISBN: 978-93-5287-931-1.
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Pub Date : 2021-07-01DOI: 10.1177/00380229211014666
A. Giri
Our contemporary moment is a moment of crisis of epistemology as a part of the wider and deeper crisis of modernity and the human condition. The crisis of epistemology emerges from the limits of the epistemic as it is tied to epistemology of procedural certainty and closure. The crisis of epistemology also reflects the limits of epistemology closed within the Euro-American universe of discourse. It is in this context that the present essay discusses Boaventura de Sousa Santos’ Epistemologies of the South: Justice Against Epistemicide. It also discusses some of the limits of de Sousa Santos’ alternatives especially his lack of cultivation of the ontological in his exploration of epistemological alternatives beyond the Eurocentric canons. It then explores the pathways of ontological epistemology of participation which brings epistemic and ontological works and meditations together in transformative and cross-cultural ways. This helps us in going beyond both the limits of the primacy of epistemology in modernity as well as Eurocentrism. It also explores pathways of a new hermeneutics which involves walking and meditating across multiple topoi of cultures and traditions of thinking and reflections which is called multi-topial hermeneutics in this study. This involves foot-walking and foot-meditative interpretation across multiple cultures and traditions of the world which help us go beyond ethnocentrism and eurocentrism and cultivate conversations and realisations across borders what the essay calls planetary realisations.
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