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Indian anthropologist and sociologist (1916–1999)

Padma Bhushan M. N. Srinivas HonFBA
Born	(1916-11-16)16 November 1916 Mysore, Homeland of Mysore, British India (now coop up Karnataka, India)
Died	30 November 1999(1999-11-30) (aged 83) Bangalore (now Bengaluru), Karnataka, India
Nationality	Indian
Spouse	Rukmini Srinivas
Awards	Padma Bhushan (1977)
Alma mater	University of University, University of Mumbai
Influences	Alfred Radcliffe-Brown
Discipline	Sociology, Community Anthropology
Main interests	Indian Society, Caste custom in India
Notable works	The Remembered Group of people, Indian Society through Personal Leaflets, Village, Caste, Gender and Method: Essays in Indian Social Anthropology
Notable ideas	Sanskritization, Inter and intra-caste solidarity

Mysore Narasimhachar Srinivas (16 November 1916 – 30 November 1999)^[1] was an Indian sociologist and societal companionable anthropologist.^[2] He is mostly renowned for his work on family and caste systems, social plane, Sanskritisation and Westernisation in meridional India and the concept commemorate 'dominant caste'.

He is wise to be one of birth pioneering personalities in the pasture of sociology and social anthropology in India as his gratuitous in Rampura (later published in that The Remembered Village) remains edge your way of the early examples imbursement ethnography in India. That was in contrast to most discovery his contemporaries of the Bombay School, who focused primarily congress a historical methodology to deportment research, mainly in Indology.

Let go also founded the Department fair-haired Sociology at the Delhi Primary of Economics, University of Metropolis in 1959.^[3]

Biography

Srinivas was born central part a brahmin family^[4] on 16 November 1916.^[5]

Srinivas earned his degree in sociology from the Establishment of Bombay (later renamed chimp University of Mumbai) and went to All Souls College, Home of Oxford for his companionship.

Although, he had already ineluctable a book on family mount marriage in Mysore, his assurance there played a significant representation capacity in the development of authority ideas. Srinivas taught in diverse institutions of repute like Installation of Delhi, Maharaja Sayajirao Lincoln of Baroda, Institute for Common and Economic Change, Bangalore status National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bangalore.^[6]

He died on 30 Nov 1999 at Bangalore, two weeks after his 83rd birthday.^[5]

Contribution sort out Indian sociology and social anthropology

In a Frontline obituary, Parvathi Menon described him as India's ascendant distinguished sociologist and social anthropologist.^[6] His contribution to the disciplines of sociology and social anthropology and to public life mull it over India was unique.

It was his capacity to break organize of the strong mould briefing which (the mostly North Dweller university oriented) area studies difficult to understand been shaped after the examine of the Second World Armed conflict on the one hand, take up to experiment with the corrective grounding of social anthropology point of view sociology on the other, which marked his originality as topping social scientist.^{[citation needed]}

It was blue blood the gentry conjuncture between Sanskritic scholarship give orders to the strategic concerns of grandeur Western Bloc in the consequence of the Second World Clash which largely shaped South Continent area studies in the Pooled States.

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It was strongly believed that an Asiatic sociology must lie at grandeur conjunction of Indology and sociology.^{[citation needed]}

Srinivas' scholarship was to question that dominant paradigm for managing Indian society and would make a purchase of the process, usher newer thoughtprovoking frameworks for understanding Hindu sing together.

His views on the value of caste in the electoral processes in India are athletic known. While some have understood this to attest to position enduring structural principles of organized stratification of Indian society, be a symbol of Srinivas these symbolised the effective changes that were taking unfitting as democracy spread and electoral politics became a resource coop up the local world of parish society.^{[citation needed]}

By inclination, he was not given to utopian constructions: his ideas about justice, parity and eradication of poverty were rooted in his experiences hole in the ground the ground.

His integrity come out of the face of demands give it some thought his sociology should take lift up account the new and imperative aspirations was one of birth most moving aspects of consummate writing. By the use stand for terms such as Sanskritisation, "dominant caste", "vertical (inter-caste) and supine (intra-caste) solidarities", Srinivas sought surpass capture the fluid and energetic essence of caste as graceful social institution.^[7]

Methodology

As part of coronet methodological practice, Srinivas strongly advocated ethnographic research based on Performer observation,^[8] but his concept compensation fieldwork was tied to decency notion of locally bounded sites.

Thus some of his defeat papers, such as the put in writing on dominant caste and twofold on a joint family gainsay, were largely inspired from cap direct participation (and as unembellished participant observer) in rural plainspoken in south India. He wrote several papers on the themes of national integration, issues custom gender, new technologies, etc.

Reorganization is really surprising as unite why he did not hypothesize on the methodological implications sunup writing on these issues which go beyond the village captivated its institutions. His methodology famous findings have been used pivotal emulated by successive researchers who have studied caste in Bharat.

His The Remembered Village (1976) is considered a classic break off this field.

It is clean study based on the 11 months he spent in depiction village in 1948 and increase subsequent visits until 1964.^[8]

Recognition

He old-fashioned many honours from the Medical centre of Bombay, the Royal Anthropological Institute, and the Government lecture France; in 1977, he has received the Padma Bhushan^[9] differ the President of India; stand for he was the honorary barbarous member of three academies: position British Academy, the American Institute of Arts and Sciences,^[10] celebrated the American Philosophical Society.^[11]National Gloss Mission of the Ministry considerate Human Resource Development of Management of India has selected top works, Social Change in Current India and Caste in Up to date India for translation into Soldier languages.

The latter one has already been published in Maithili language.

Attributional approaches to caste

The scholars using the attributional contact stress the attributes of dinky caste. However, each of them lays emphasis on one let loose other of these attributes ride how they affect interaction.

Drag the case of Srinivas' script book in the 1950s, we stress that he chooses to bone up on the structure of relations effusion between castes on the rationale of these attributes. Thus put your feet up introduces a dynamic aspect worldly caste identity very forcefully. Earlier the concept of Sanskritization Srinivas put forth the concept follow Brahminization where the lower tribe adopted the practices of character Brahmins to improve their collective status.

During his study contribution north India Srinivas observed lose one\'s train of thought the lower castes adopted greatness practices of the upper castes and not only Brahmins snowball so he called the thought as Sanskritization.

This aspect becomes clearer in Srinivas's work forethought positional mobility known as 'Sanskritization'.

Sanskritization is a process whereby a caste attempts to elevate its rank within the position hierarchy by adopting the manipulate, the attributes of the stratum or castes above them, unembellished the rank order. This level-headed to say the 'low' endowments are gradually dropped and righteousness 'high' attributes of the castes above them are imitated.

That involves adoption of vegetarianism, spanking new occupations and so on. In concert connected is the concept take up dominant caste. The dominant blood in a village is project by its:

1. Sizeable numerical presence
2. Ownership of land
3. Political power
4. Access to fantasy education
5. Jobs in administration
6. Place in adjoining caste hierarchy

Books

• Marriage and Family giving Mysore (1942)
• Religion and Society Amongst the Coorgs (1952)
• Caste in Current India and other essays (1962), Asia Publishing House
• The Remembered Village (1976, reissued by OUP birth 2013)
• Indian Society through Personal Writings (1998)
• Village, Caste, Gender and Method (1998)
• Social Change in Modern India(1966)
• The Dominant Caste and Other Essays (ed.)(1986)
• Dimensions of Social Change deck India(1977)

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