Return to Sanity?
At a time when sociology has come to be dominated either by convoluted ways of stating the obvious or tortuous and pseudo-mathematical elaborations of dubious methodologies.
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This study far surpasses the modestly expressed aspirations of the authors of being mainly designed to cater to the needs and requirements of ‘initiates in Library Science’.
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It is not a ‘scholarly’ book. It is not a ‘profound’ book. But it is a book which makes you want to meet the writer and talk to him.
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With the exception of a few brief intermissions, throughout the British rule in India severe controls were put on the growth of public opinion and on the literature of nationalism or self rule.
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Bhisma Sawhney is known for his progressive views in literature and for stories and novels which provide pleasant reading material.
A Small Town Narcissus
Mulk Raj Anand is one of the pioneers of the modern Indo-Anglian novel. Since his first novels were written and published abroad he has added to his reputation as a humanist, as an art critic.
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The authors have tried to analyse the basic constraints in implementation of programmes designed for the improvement of the socio-economic conditions of the deprived sections of our population.
Marxism as Sociology
Marxism has been described by one of its leading contemporary critics as ‘equivocal and inexhaustible’. Generations of scholars, with varying degrees of seriousness and sympathy.
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The task of attempting a study on the population geography of Muslim Indians, assessing the present in the historical context, as Dr. Siddiqui has done, is a particularly hazardous task since India.
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The democratic process has frail roots in Pakistan and the system seems destined to preserve inherited privilege.