THE DISCIPLINE AND THE PROFESSION: CHALLENGES AND RESPONSES:
The Captive Mind Syndrome in Indian Sociology;
The ‘Bombay School’ and Urban Sociology in India;
Sociology in Karnataka: The Formation and Decline of a Discipline;
The Golden Jubilee and Beyond: Reflections on the ‘Profession’;
Sociological Bulletin at Sixty: The Biography and Meta-Analysis of a Journal;
A Partial Memoir: Conversation with Manish Thakur;
TRIBUTES TO THE MASTERS:
Mysore Narasimhachar Srinivas (1916–1999);
Govind Sadashiv Ghurye (1893–1983);
Yogendra Singh (1932–2020);
Radhakamal Mukerjee (1889–1968);
Ramkrishna Mukherjee (1917–2015);
Debiprasad Chattopadhyaya (1918–1993);
Madhav Sadashiv Gore (1921–2010);
John Charles Caldwell (1928–2016);
Partha Nath Mukherji (1940–2021);
Satish Saberwal (1933–2010);

This volume is a compilation of sixteen research articles and exegetical essays by N. Jayaram. The six chapters in Part One deal with the legacy of sociology in India as an ‘uncertain transplant’ from Western Europe. They reflect on the origin and development of sociology over one hundred years, the challenges it faced and continues to face both as an academic discipline and as a profession. The ten chapters in Part Two are lectures delivered or essays written as tributes to the memory of some of the masters who have shaped the development of the discipline in the country. The introduction strings together the chapters by highlighting their theme and the context in which the text of the chapters was originally prepared, presented, and published.