The India International Centre invites you to an evening in honour of Professor J.P.S Uberoi on the occasion of the publication of “Mind and Society: From Indian Studies to General Sociology” on 20 July 2019, 6:30 p.m. at India International Centre, New Delhi.
Chair
Khalid Tyabji (Editor)
Speakers
J.P.S. Uberoi
Retired Professor, Centre for the Advanced Study of Sociology, Delhi School of Economics
Ashis Nandy
Political Psychologist, Senior Honorary Fellow, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies
Shiv Visvanathan
Director, Centre for the Study of Knowledge Systems, O.P. Jindal Global University
Savyasaachi
Professor, Department of Sociology, Jamia Millia Islamia
Deepak Mehta
Professor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Ashoka University
One of the country’s most eminent sociologists and a former faculty member of the Department of Sociology, Prof. J.P.S. Uberoi has inaugurated a unique approach in the study of Indian sociology and social anthropology. He makes a case for independent Indian sociology in response to Gandhi’s call for Swaraj in thought. “Mind and Society” highlights his pioneering scholarship and brings together eighteen papers originally written by him between 1968 and 2013. The volume represents an emphatic statement by the author that the time has come for India to bid for its place in the universal free world of the intellect.