CONTENTS Acknowledgment ix The Contributors xi 1 Introduction 1 PART I : Sociology and Society: Different Takes 2 Disciplinary Trajectories and Social Trends: Sociology and Social Thought in Tamil Nadu 33 V. Sujatha 3 Sociology, Sociologists, Seng Samla and Seng Kynthei of Meghalaya 58 A.K. Nongkynrih 4 The Making of a Syllabus: An Issue beyond Academics 78 Dalia Chakrabarti PART II : Sociology in the Margins: The Local and the Banal 5 Practising Sociology on the Outside Edge 105 Santosh Kr. Singh 6 Sociology in the 'Regional' Backwoods: A Fictional Rendering 119 Pushpesh Kumar 7 Sociology in Northeast India: A Synoptic View 139 Subrat K. Nanda PART III : Sociology in Professional Institutions: Global Brands and Disciplinary Marginality i 8 Of Mainstream and Margins: Sociology in Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) 157 Manish Thakur 9 Nurturing Sociology among Nurses: The Case of West Bengal 181 Ramanuj Ganguly 10 Integrating Sociology in a Law School Curriculum: Discontent, Dilemma, Direction 197 Rukmini Sen 11The Challenges in Teaching Sociology at IIT: Are Karl and Max Relevant? 215 KushalDeb PART IV : New Sites and Modes of Doing Sociology 12 New Locations and New Articulations: Practice of Sociology in a Metropolitan Autonomous Institution 235 Shaji Varghese and R. Santhosh 13 Social Research and the New Centres of Knowledge Production252 Ravi Kumar 14 Why Choose Sociology?: Tamil Nadu in Global Times ' 273 Madhu Sharan 15 Sociology and the Practice of Social Compliance Auditing 298 Archana Prasad PART V : Tracking Concepts: Of Intellectual Journeys 16 Rethinking Community: In the Discipline and within Development Practices 323 Amites Mukhopadhyay 17 Tribes as Indigenous People of India 340 Virginius Xaxa 18 Teaching Caste and the Hindu Social Order: Dalits in Indian Sociology 360 Viveh Kumar 19 The Concept of Gender: Its Travels and Travails 381 Maitrayee Chaudhuri Index 400