About the Book

This commomerative volume of Professor S.P. Nagendra consists of some of his important and seminal contributions to sociology. These articles broadly are on ‘traditions and their moral and ritual foundations’, ‘culture and its policy implications’, ‘development and its important ramifications’ and his glowing tribute to his outstanding teacher, Professor D.P. Mukerji, the doyen among the Indian sociologists.

For Nagendra, the ancient Indian society is the nearest approximation to what can be considered as the normal civilization. It rests on principles which guided the hierarchical ordering of the traditional society. The social change in the traditional society is from one order to the other, similar to those in the life organism. On culture, Nagendra employs Dielthey’s concept of ‘interpretive understanding’ to fully comprehend the different concepts of culture. Likewise, there are many significant observations on other issues which sociologically are significant, such as the dicussion on tradition and modernity and others.

This book will be invaluable for both academics and the lay readers to appreciate the critical issues in modern Indian society.

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About the Author / Editor

THE EDITORS

C. Lakshmanna served as the Assistant Professor of Sociology at Lucknow University, before he joined the Osmania University, Hyderabad, where his final assignment was Professor and Head of the Department of Sociology. He was also Visiting Professor at the Pittsburg University and some other universities in the US. Later he was Member of Parliament and Indian High Commissioner to Trinidad & Tobago and other West Indies. He has widely travelled all over the world on academic assignments.

Jugendra Sahai is a former Professor and Head, Department of Sociology, M.G. Kashi Vidyapith, Varanasi. He was also a Visiting Professor at the University of Lucknow and CCS University, Meerut. He visited several countries on different academic assignments. His main areas of interest are sociological theories and social development on which he has published/contributed papers in various sociological fora.

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