Talking Sociology: Deepankar Gupta in Conversation with Ramin Jahanbegloo [Hardcover]

Introduction:Dipankar Gupta-Making Sense of India and Modernity

Part I: From Bihar to Delhi

A Bengali Household
Growing Up in an Apolitical Family
Nehruvian Times and the Partition Effect
An Agnostic Indian
The Art of Being a Bengali
An Unhappy School boy
A Mumbai Man
Entering Academics and the Delhi School of Economics
Appreciating Philosophy
The Joshi Influence
The JNU Years
Politics at JNU

Part II: Thinking Sociology

The Shiv Sena in Bombay
The Emergency Years
Learning Experiences in the West
Becoming a Regular Teacher
Ethics and Business
Reading Levinas
Contributions to Indian Sociology
Thinking with the French Culture
The Impact of Levi-Strauss


Part III: Citizenship and Democracy

Revolution from Above
The Bilbao Experience
The Comparative Mood and the Indian Laboratory
The Role of the Citizen Elite
Gandhi and the West
Gandhi and the Political Grammar of Democracy
Exoticising Gandhi
Thinking Nonviolence Today
Gandhi, Nehru and the
Constitution
Ram Mohan Roy and Saint Simon
Fraternity and Empathy
Citizenship and Indianess

Part IV: Caste, Village, and Modernity

How to Judge Rural India
Are We Moderns?
Orientalism and Caste
The End of Caste?
Caste and Elections in India

Part V: Communalism and Ethnicity

Sikh Identity Politics
The Sikh Identity
Nation-States and Their Enemies
The Sacralization of India
Nationalism and Grievances
The Role of Sociologists in Democracies

Part VI: Modern Institutions and Cultural Spaces

Space, Non-Space and Secularization
The Sacred in Indian Politics
Religion and the State
Reason and Progress

Index
About the Authors