write down Ghurye's views on race.
Answers
sjsj djdh dj skkdk dkdj
It was the tragedy of G. S. Ghurye to be overshadowed by one of his
own students—the modest but brilliant M. N. Srinivas. But the difference
was as much in historical moment as in scholarship. Ghurye made his
career in prepartition British India; subaltern status forged his bitterness.
The more fortunate Srinivas had a postcolonial career and was able to
join his friend R. K. Narayan in creating a serene vision of a new India—
the former in sociology, the latter in fiction.
But Ghurye was a great man, author of ten thousand pages on subjects
as diverse as caste and costume, Shakespeare and sadhus. Head of department and professor of sociology at the University of Bombay, Ghurye
trained 40 PhD’s in a 35-year teaching career, then trained another 16
PhD’s in retirement. He founded the Indian Sociological Society in 1951
and remained its president for 15 years. Several of his students were later
ISS presidents, and others served as the organization’s secretaries or treasurers. Their books were as numerous as chilies in Kerala. And Ghurye
himself wrote at least one truly great book: the monograph Caste and
Race in India for C. K. Ogden’s History of Civilization series, in which
he joined authors such as W. H. R. Rivers, Lucien Febvre, V. Gordon
Childe, and Marcel Granet. Published in 1932, the book—Ghurye’s first—
was a resounding success. By 1969 it had reached a fifth edition and
almost doubled in size.
So extraordinary a career of course reflected an equally extraordinary
character, and indeed the chapter titles of Ghurye’s autobiographical
memoir reveal a man who found and lived a destiny