Indian Society, Through Personal Writings

Year 1999

ISBN No. 9780195645606

No.of pages 260

Subject People and Places, Autobiography/Biography

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This volume presents a selection of Srinivas's reflective writings. It begins with a readable account of how Srinivas became an anthropologist and ends with his return to the university after doing fieldwork in the village of Rampura.

Table of contents

Introduction; 1. Itineraries of an Indian Social Anthropologist; 2. My Baroda Days; 3. Bangalore As I See It; 4. The Study of Disputes in an Indian Village; 5. A Caste Dispute among the Washerman of Mysore; 6. A Joint Family Dispute in a Mysore Village; 7. The Potter and the Priest; 8. The Changing Village; 9. The Quality of Social Relations; 10. Religion; Farewell