Scholars and Prophets

Sociology of India from France in the 19th-20th Centuries

• Author(s): Roland Lardinois,
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis
• Pages: 574
• ISBN_10: 1351403613
  ISBN_13: 9781351403610
  
• Language: en
• Categories: History / Asia / General , Literary Collections / Asian / Indic , Literary Criticism / General , Social Science / Anthropology / General , Social Science / Ethnic Studies / General , Social Science / Human Geography , Social Science / Sociology / General , Social Science / Regional Studies ,

Description:... Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- Prologue -- Part I Genesis of a Learned Milieu -- 1. The conquest of scholarly legitimacy -- 2. Orientalism and prophetic discourse -- 3. The struggle for institutional autonomy -- Part II Scholars and Prophets -- 4. The field of production of discourses on India -- 5. Scholarly practice -- 6. Prophetic Logic -- 7. Study of Hinduism as a disciplinary issue -- Part III Social Science and Indigenous Science -- 8. Louis Dumont and the Brahmanical science -- 9. Louis Dumont and the cunning of reason -- 10. The avatars of scholarship on India -- Conclusion: Sociology put to the test of India -- Postscript: Notes on the construction of a research subject -- Postface to the English-Language Edition -- Appendix. Multi Correspondence Analysis -- List of documents, tables and diagrams -- Sources and Bibliography -- General Index -- Names Index