Readings in Indian Sociology : Volume II: Sociological Probings in Rural Society.

Cover -- Contents -- Series Note -- Foreword -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Reconceptualising The Indian Village -- SECTION I - Rural Society and Rural-Urban Relations -- 1 - Rural Sociology: Its Need in India -- 2 - Symposium on Rural-Urban Relations: The Industrialization and Urbanization of Rural Areas -- 3 - Modernization and the Urban-Rural Gap in India: An Analysis -- 4 - 'Fringe' Society and the Folk-Urban Continuum -- 5 - Rural Family Patterns: A Study in Urban-Rural Relations -- SECTION II - Social Stratification in Rural India -- 6 - Measurement of Rigidity-Fluidity Dimension of Social Stratification in Six Indian Villages -- 7 - Bhadralok and Chhotolok in a Rural Area of West Bengal -- 8 - Caste System in Contemporary Rural Bihar: A Study of Selected Villages -- 9 - Power Elite in Rural India :Some Questions and Clarifications -- 10 - Social Stratification and Institutional Change in a Gujarat Village -- SECTION III - Village Profiles -- 11 - Chokhala-An IntervillageOrganization of a Caste in Rajasthan -- 12 - Modernization and Changing Fertility Behaviour: A Study in a Rajasthan Village -- 13 - Ideology, Power and Resistance in a South Indian Village -- 14 - Voices from the Earth: Work and Food Production in a Punjabi Village -- SECTION IV - Religion and Rituals -- 15 - Public Shrines and Private Interests: The Symbolism of the Village Temple -- 16 - A Study of Customs in Rural Mysore -- 17 - Ritual Circles in a Mysore Village -- SECTION V - Social Change in Rural India -- 18 - Study of Social Change in Independent Rural India: Critical Issues for Analyses in the Fourth Decade of Independence -- 19 - Downward Social Mobility: Some Observations -- 20 - Dimensions of Agrarian Structure and Change: Issues in Theory -- Index -- About the Editor and Contributors -- Appendix of Sources.

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