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Ramkrishna Mukherjee | |
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| Born | 14 November-1917 |
| Died | 15th November 2015 |
| Cause of death | Multi-organ failure |
| Occupation(s) | Writer, researcher,activist |
| Spouse | Prabhati Mukherjee. |
| Parent(s) | Satindra Nath and Sati Rani Devi |
| Awards | Swami Pranavanad award,Jawaharlal Nehru Award ,Asiatic Society Gold Medal |
| Scientific career | |
|fields=Sociology,anthropology,statistics
Ramkrishna Mukherjee
[edit]Ramkrishna Mukherjee(14November1917-15 November 2015) was Distinguished Scientist at the Indian Statistical Institute|Calcutta|and Adjunct Professor|ofSociology|atBinghamton University|Cite error: A <ref> tag is missing the closing </ref> (see the help page).From 1973 to 1975 he was President of the Indian Sociological Society|and received their Lifetime Achievement Award in 2005.[1]
[2]HIS most important work was dYNAMICS OF A RURALSOCIETY[3]Practising Sociology through History
Early Life and Education
[edit]Mukherjee was born in Calcutta(Kolkata)with a middle class background . His father Satindra Nath was an Engineer.He passed his matriculation in Ripon Collegiste school in 1935.Mukherjeee first went to live in villages at the age of 21. Ramkrishna got married to Prabhati Mukherjee, an academic, who died in 2008.[4]
Having passed his matriculation in 1935 from Ripon collegiate schoolhe first went to live in villages at the age of 21 [5] obtained Msc degree from University of Calcutta and Phd Cambridge University[4] from University of Calcutta|in 1941 Cambridge University| in 1948 . Initially starting as a geneticist he turned to Statistics and took lessons in statistics from Prof Mahalnobis.
Career
[edit]He was the Chief Research Officer to His Majesty's Social SurveyLondon|in 1948 and 1949.from 1949 to 1952he was consultant to Government of Turkey| and to London School of Economics|.Between 1953 and 1957 he was Guest Professor at the Institute of Indian studies at Humboldt University| inBerlin.Until 1979 he was associated as research professor with Indian Statistical Institute.He also worked as adviser to social science journals and institutions both in India and abroad.[6]His contributions covered subjects like family,caste and class, agrarian relations,nationalism,inductive method ,National Sample Survey design,urbanization and social change and colonial exploitation however one cannot easily encompass the sweep of his interests.He had a Marxist and historical perspective according to which structures were a result of a process and were in themselves part of an ongoing process.[7].he founded the Sociological Research Unit (SRU) at the Indian Statistical Institute at the behest of Prof Mahalnobis.Indian Statistical Institute He also established the All India Sociological Conference.[1] his most notable work was Dynamics of Rural Society and his main contribution was his Dialectical Approach towards studying Indian society.[8] which was also used by Indian Sociolologists likeARDesai |
Work
[edit]He wrote more than a dozon books and over a hundred papers in internationally reputed journals.He emphasized the importance of a dialectic model for the study of Indian Society.[9]he combined Marx's Dialectical logic with the study of Indian Society [10]Modernity essay an useful Essay on Modernity in India - Supriya Guru
With his work the theme of agrarian social structure and change was to reappear in Indian Sociology after a gap of two decadesin the late 1960's and 70's.[9]
Awards and Honors
[edit]- Member, ICSSR(Indian Council of Social Science Research)
- Executive Member-(International Sociological Association(ISA)(1974-78)[6]
- National Lecturer (1977)
- Asiatic Society Gold Medal for Anthropology(1981)
- University Grants Commission, New Delhi(1985)Swami Pranavanand Awards for Sociology
- Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru Award for Social Sciences by Government of Madhya Pradesh (1986)
- Distinguished Scientist at ISI[4]
Publications
[edit]Following are his widely recognized publicationsBooks by Ramkrishna Mukherjee
Books
[edit]- Ancient Inhabitants of Jabel Moya Sudan (Cambridge University Press 1955) ISBN 0521134749
- Sociologists and Social Change in India(Prentice Hall New Delhi 1965)Mukherjee, Ramkrishna (1965). The Sociologist and social change in India Today. New Delhi, Prentice hall.OCLC 8323616
- Six villages of Bengal (Bombay-Popular Prakashan 1971)ASIN B0006CDL3U
- The Dynamics of Rural Society-A Study of the Economic Structure of Bengal villages (Akademic Verlag 1957)ISBN 8171552153
- The Rise and Fall of East India Company- A Sociological Appraisal (Monthly Review Press, New York,1974)ISBN 0853453152
- Social Indicators (Delhi Macmilan Company of India ,1975)Mukherjee, Ramkrishna. Social Indicators.ISBN 0333900901
- Family and Planning in India (Bombay- Orient Longman,1976)OCLC 3558626
- West Bengal Family Structures -an example of the viability of the Joint Family(South Asia Book , 1977,ISBN 978-0333901311
- What will it be- Explorations in Inductive Sociology(Carolina Academic Press, 1978)
- Sociology of Indian Sociology(Bombay Allied ,1979)OCLC 6280302
- Classification of Social Research(state University New York 1984)ISBN 0-87395-607-9
- Uganda ,an historical accident ?Class ,Nation , State formation (Africa Research and Publications 1985)ISBN 0865430160
- The quality of life-valuation in social research(Sage Publications 1989) ISBN 0803995873
- Society, culture,development(Sage publications 1991)ISBN 0803991029
- Systemic Sociology(Sage Publication 1993)ISBN 8170363527
- The Measure of Time in the Appraisal of Social Reality(Cambridge Scholars Publishing 2009)ISBN 9781443805766
- Why Unitary Social Science(Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009)ISBN 1443802123
- Ramkrishna Mukherjee- ParthNath Mukherjee-Methodology of Social Research -dilemmas and perspectives-Essays in honor of Ramkrishna Mukherjee- (2000 Sage Publications)ISBN 9780761994404
- Globalization,trends and perspectives- Essays in honor of Ramkrishna Mukherjee - Ramkrishna Mukherjee - Samit KarKolkata (Directed Initiative 2002)OCLC 52929145
- Sociology in the Rubric Social Science - Professor Ramkrishna Mukherjee Felicitation Volume S.Bhattacharya Ashok Ghosh ISBN 8185579334
- West Bengal Family structures- 1946-66,an example of the viability of the joint family. MacMilan Co.of India. 1977.
- sociology of Indian Sociology. Bombay Allied. 1979.Sociology of Indian SociologyOCLC 6280302
Articles
[edit]- Mukherjee,Mahalnobis,Ghosh (1946). "ASample survey ofAfter Effects of Bengal Famine of 1943". Sankhya.
{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) A Sample Survey of After effects of Bengal Famine of 1943]Sankhya(1946)Mukherjee Mahalnobis Ghosh - 1981 Realities of Agrarian Relations in IndiaEconomic and Political Weekly (1981)
- 1972 Social Background of BangladeshEconomic and Political Weekly (1972)
- 1999 Caste in itself, caste and class,or caste in classEconomic and Political Weekly(1999)
- 1986 I P Desai and Sociology of IndiaEconomic and political Weekly(1986)
- 1991 Social and Cultural Components of Society and Appraisal of Social Reality Economic and Political Weekly
- 1979 For a Sociology of IndiaContributions to Indian Sociology
- 1969 Empirical Social Research in Contemporary IndiaSocial Science Information
- 1998 Social Reality and Culture Current Sociology
- 1962 Sociologists and Social Change in India TodaySociological Bulletin
- 1968 Some observations on the diachronic and synchronic aspects of Social ChangeSocial Science Information
- 1981 On the use of social indicators for planningSocial Indicators Research
- 1979 Trends in Indian SociologyContributions to Indian Sociology
- 1997 Problems and Paradoxes of Inductive Social Science-A Critique of Ramkrishna Mukherjee- Pradip Kumar BoseSociological Bulletin
- 1974 The sociologist and social reality -Sociological Bulletin Vol 23 No2
- "Data inventory on Social Sciences". Sankhya. 1970.
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Further reading
[edit]- Social Change in India - Reconsidering Ramkrishna Mukherjee- Economic and Political Weekly 2016
- "Red Fifties Frank Girling -Ramkrishna MukherjeeMarxist Anthropology and anti communism". Journal of the Asiatic Society. 59 (2). 2017.
- Rise and Fall of East India Company- a Sociological Appraisal
- Society Culture Development
- Problems and paradoxes of Inductive social science a critique of Ramkrishna Mukherjee[11]
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Notes
[edit]- ^ a b "Office Bearers over the years". Indian Sociological Society.
- ^ "Scholar Dead". The Telegraph. 2015.
- ^ dn dhanagre - Practising sociology through history
- ^ a b c "Life and Works of Ramkrishna Mukherjee - a Preliminary Appreciation". Sociological Bulletin. 65 (2): 263–269. 2016.
- ^ "Ramkrishna Mukherjee in conversation with Anjan Ghosh". Sociological Bulletin. 63 (1): 113. 2014.
- ^ a b Cite error: The named reference
articlewas invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ "Some Unity in Diversity:Analyzing Inequality ,Change and Mobility in Rural South India". Lund University.
- ^ Dhanagre, DN (2007). "practicing Sociology through History - The Indian Experience". Economic and Political Weekly: 3420.
- ^ a b "Contribution of Ramkrishna Mukherjee to Indian Sociology". Your Article Library.
- ^ Supriya Guru - Your Article Library - Modernity Essay- an useful essay on modernity in India
- ^ Bose, Pradip Kumar (1997). "Problems and paradoxes of Inductive social science-a critique of Ramkrishna Mukherjee". Sociological Bulletin. 46 (2): 153–171.
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