Srinivas, Mysore Narasimhachar
- Summary
- Mysore Narasimhachar Srinivas was an Indian sociologist and social anthropologist. He is mostly known for his work on caste and caste systems, social stratification, Sanskritisation and Westernisation in southern India and the concept of 'dominant caste'. He is considered to be one of the pioneering personalities in the field of sociology and social anthropology in India as his work in Rampura remains one of the early examples of ethnography in India. That was in contrast to most of his contemporaries of the Bombay School, who focused primarily on a historical methodology to conduct research, mainly in Indology. He also founded the Department of Sociology at the Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi in 1959. Wikipedia
- Gender or Sex
- Male [1][2][3][4][5]
- Born
- 1916 [2]
- 1916-11-16 [5]
- Birth Place
- Mysore, Karnataka, Inde [3]
- Mysore [5]
- Died
- 1999 [2]
- 1999-11-30 [5]
- Death Place
- Bangalore, Karnataka [3]
- Country
- India [2]
- Language
- English [3]
- Occupation
- anthropologist [5]
- sociologist [5]
- Profession
- Soziologe [2]
- Employer
- Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda [5]
- University of Delhi [5]
- Educated at
- University of Mumbai [5]
- University of Oxford [5]
- Elphinstone College [5]
- Country of Education
- United Kingdom [5]
- India [5]
- Encyclopædia Britannica
- Biography [5]
- Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
- Biography (requires subscription) [5]
- Yale LUX
- Entity [5]
- Sources
- 1. VIAF
- 2. Deutsche Nationalbibliothek (Germany)
- 3. Bibliothèque nationale de France
- 4. Library of Congress
- 5. Wikidata
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