Maitrayee Chaudhuri and Manish Thakur, "Doing Theory: Locations, Hierarchies and Disjunctions" (Orient Blackswan, 2018)
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The Disadvantages of Indigenous Theory in Indian Sociology
There has been always a kind of claim for indigenous theory in Indian sociology, says rithoponai. The worrying part in contemporary India is that instead of being a serious engagement with theory what you have is a kind of idol worship or an ancestor worship he adds. i think it would be important not to just put icky saran in that syllabus but to engage with what icky saran is talking about and this dialogue that the engagement is very very critical right so do you think that doing theory is a choice i say? Rithop onai: It's a complicated story because one again talk about context in the colonial context it would be but natural that there would be
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