Sociological traditions methods and perspectives in the sociology of India

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Cultural traditions, sociological perspectives -- Indian secularism in a post-secular age -- Hinduism : the book view and the field view -- Islam : the universal and the particular -- Sikhism : the sacred and the secular -- Gandhi and Weber : the work ethic, capitalism, and conscience -- Sociological traditions : exemplars, interpreters -- Radhakamal Mukerjee and his contemporaries -- D.P. Mukerji : towards a historical sociology -- M.N. Srinivas : empiricism and imagination -- Louis Dumont : India and the West -- Contributions to Indian sociology : towards methodological pluralism.