Between Ascription and Aspiration: The Story of Rural India
One of India’s leading sociologists takes us through the changes in agrarian societies since independence, to provide much needed context for the conflicts we see today
Surinder S Jodhka
Surinder S Jodhka is a Professor of Sociology at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He researches on caste, agrarian change and contemporary rural India, and community identities. His publications include Contested Hierarchies: Caste and Power in 21st Century India (OBS 2018 with James Manor); A Handbook of Rural India (OBS 2018); The Indian Middle Class (OUP 2016, with Aseem Prakash); Caste in Contemporary India (Routledge 2015); Interrogating India’s Modernity (ed. OUP 2013); Caste (OUP 2012). He is editor of the Routledge India book series on ‘Religion and Citizenship. He is the recipients of the ICSSR-Amartya Sen Award for Distinguished Social Scientists.
