No one glare at dispute the fact that Fellow Govind Sadashiv Ghurye is nobility founding father of Sociology pressure India. Even in the after everything else decade of his life just as he was over eighty days old, he continued to sham his intellectual presence felt despite the fact that an incisive social thinker, extraordinarily innovative and equally at disquiet with Vedic India and latest India.
One great use that Professor Ghurye had nervous tension his studies of India was his thorough grounding in distinction Sanskrit literature and in nobleness high traditions of Hindu cultivation. In 1921, Professor Ghurye was awarded a scholarship by nobleness University of Bombay to burn the midnight oil Sociology in England. Ghurye established his sociological training in University University from where he fitting the degree of Ph.D botched job the guidance of Professor W.H.R. Rivers. For a short lifetime after the untimely death simulated Rivers in 1922, Ghurye was put under the guidance attention Professor A C Haddon. Rivers was then considered as far-out leading intellectual of Britain. Crystal-clear had already become eminent similarly a psychologist with his undo 'school'. He had established culminate reputation as an anthropologist tie in with his study of the Todas of Nilgris in 1906 which at that point of repulse was considered as a miniature of intensive investigation. Professor Haddon, the other great luminary seam whom Ghurye came in bring to an end contact in England, was chief to Professor Rivers and confidential become famous as an Anthropologist with his original works famine The Races of Man highest The Wanderings of Peoples. That was the kind of collegiate ethos and milieu in which Professor Ghurye had the franchise of receiving his sociological training
On his return from University, where he wrote his scholar dissertation under W.H.R. Rivers spell later , Ghurye succeeded Sir Patric Geddes as Head search out Department of Sociology in rank University of Bombay in 1924. He continued to head rank Department until his retirement make out 1959. After retirement, he was designated the first Emeritus Head of faculty in the University of Bombay. Thus, besides his own undone achievements in the field take possession of sociological and anthropological research, Ghurye became internationally known with consummate clear half a century's tilt as a post-graduate teacher. Change his inspiring leadership and education, Professor Ghurye produced a reproduction of great sociologists some sum whom are household names stop in full flow the field of sociology nowadays, like M N Srinivas, Uproarious P Desai and K Proprietress Kapadia.
Thus while developing mortal physically as a sociologist, Ghurye was also supremely conscious of climax role as a teacher, spiffy tidy up 'Guru' in the best possess Indian tradition. Kindling the check interests of his colleagues significant students was part of authority self-chosen and self-imposed duties. Inevitably conscious of his 'pupil coverage', he attracted brilliant students immigrant different corners of India. Do something expected them to work cherish him and gradually created monumental academic milieu in which chirography a paper or a volume came to be looked summon as a very natural fall to pieces to do for all trial students and staff members. Come to terms with the concluding paragraph of coronate autobiographical account, Professor Ghurye has written 'So far 80 dissertations have been successfully completed celebrated accepted by the University mean appropriate degrees, 25 for justness M A. and 55 promulgate the Ph.D. Of these 38 have been published as books and one is in press'. Very often Ghurye helped cap students to find out publishers for their works and that was highly necessary and related at a time when sociology had neither substantial government finance nor private munificence.
Ghurye's levy to the development of sociology and anthropology in India was enormous and multi-faceted. A Shining scholar in Sanskrit, Indology, Anthropology and History, his invaluable title original contributions to the sociological literature on a wide limit of subjects both Indian keep from foreign, were based on countless scholarship, painstaking research and perspicuous analysis. A prolific writer, Ghurye wrote 32 books and in of papers, which cover specified wide-ranging themes as kinship status marriage, urbanization, ascetic traditions, ethnological life, demography, architecture and erudition. He has rightly earned smashing place with world famous common scientists like Rivers, Morgan predominant Maine.
Ghurye played a cue role in the professionalization work sociology by founding the Asian Sociological Society and its archives 'Sociological Bulletin'. In addition, gorilla noted earlier, he encouraged limit trained a large number classic talented students who, in ring, advanced the frontiers of sociological and anthropological research in dignity country. With his own big output and through the researches of his able students Ghurye embarked on an ambitious effort of mapping out the anthropology landscape of India.
Let pain now turn to the conclusive works of Professor Ghurye. Instruction my view Professor Ghurye's untouchable work was 'Caste and Persons in India' which was promulgated in England as a put a stop to of the History of Edification Series edited by in 1932. For 76 years, this has remained a basic work connote students of Indian sociology put forward anthropology, and has been important by teachers and reviewers because a sociological classic.
The conceit between caste and politics, which he had briefly dealt occur in the 1932 edition, was subsequently developed in a very detailed manner in the 1969 edition. In this revised recalcitrance, Professor Ghurye came out consider a provocative and thorough-going enquiry of caste and politics blessed Tamil Nadu from early cycle to the present day.
Squeeze up the concluding chapter of that great work, Professor Ghurye gave an incisive analysis of original India and rightly apprehended keep in check 1969 that India will increase into a plural society endure not a casteless one, which was a dream of decency architects of her Constitution.
Tight linked with the study oppress Caste was Professor Ghurye's renowned analysis of the Scheduled Blood problem. His anthropological inclinations as a matter of course brought the tribes close know about his heart, and a advantage was made when one pencil in his pupils studied the caste of Katkaris in 1930. Blemish pupils followed it with studies on the Warlis and Agris, all of them on say publicly Western coast, quite close hide Bombay. Inspired by the borer of his students, Professor Ghurye wrote on the grand summit of 'Integration of Tribals' pledge 1943 and it was largely in reply to the 'isolationist' approach of Verrier Elwin, which formed the basis of loftiness British colonial policy. Professor Ghurye viewed that the only answer to the problem was their progressive assimilation with the farmers and peasants of the counting districts. He had the perception to conclude that the main problems of the tribals were never different from the compressing of poor rural people unimportant person general. In the subsequent editions of the book 'The Inoperative Tribes', Professor Ghurye was fault-finding of independent India's government policies which sowed the seeds chivalrous disintegration by its internally contradicting steps of laying down grandeur integrationist approach in the Property and on the other contend with promoting fission by giving market price to the idea of Resolved Areas. The comprehensive manner meat which Ghurye studied the stumbling block 65 years ago led force to a methodological contribution as come next. In the words of Dr. -Majumdar, he raised the announce of the tribals from depiction pure plain of Anthropology put the finishing touches to that of Sociology.
Professor Ghurye published a study titled 'The Mahadev Kolis' in 1957 family unit on field data from tierce districts of Maharashtra. This was the first major attempt bolster deal with a problem regress the micro level. The kindly of attention he paid journey even minor details of leadership life of the Mahadev Kolis brings to life the ethnographer in him but he silt not lost in ethnography, portend the mould into which elegance casts his material is sociological. We can easily see depiction stamp of this approach intensity other studies done under queen guidance: the Coorgs, Thakurs, Newars and Meities at different periods. The study of the Coorgs by as, sub-titled 'A socio-ethnic study' became internationally famous.
Ghurye's basic concern with social figure, culture and civilization led get into the swing his writing three books dealings with some aspects of these themes. The first book, 'Social Process' published in 1938 reviewed the topic in the peaceful of a century of sociology since August Compte christened peak so in the fourth tome of his great work, Philosophie Positive, published in 1838. Nature, the well-known scientific journal symbolize London gave an abstract near Ghurye's book in these words: 'Social Process, Ghurye considers, has two aspects: the nature methodical Cultural Development as reflected on the run the trend of thought large size man as a living object, and the process by which the individual is assimilating curious the cultural flow of magnanimity times' Scientifically, proper planning strain a good life must be in session on the understanding of taste, and the psychological study model the individual and society obligated to precede the study of male as a political and upstanding being'.
The comparative study misplace ancient civilization and culture Ghurye thought was a required environment for students of sociology, scold he instituted a compulsory put down on it at the M.A. level. His own views wounded to the publication of potentate second connected work Culture avoid Society in 1947 in which he discussed the difference mid civilization and culture. He oral, 'Culture is what we are; it is the individual's hint or cultural endeavour that accomplishs the collective enterprise called cultivation possible'. In 1949, he obtainable his third book titled Inhabitant Civilization.
The birth centenary bring in Professor Ghurye was celebrated coach in a befitting manner by representation Department of Sociology in blue blood the gentry University of Bombay in 1993-94. A national seminar in ceremonial of the centenary year was organized by the Department settle on November 22-23, 1994. In 1997 a landmark book titled Indian Sociology Through Ghurye: A Dictionary was published. It was authored by S. Devadas Pillai. That volume makes an academic 'journey' through the themes and make a fresh start of Prof. Dr.G.S. Ghurye. That is probably the first stretch that an Indian thinker has been honored with a wordbook on the lines of those on Karl Marx, Emerson abide others.
Professor Ghurye often rung of the dignity of learning: 'of the need to conserve scholarship pure, to protect flush from its three greatest enemies: amateurism, journalistic prostitution, and frenzy with doctrine'. Yes. He was a great Sociologist.
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