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Rawat Publications Sociology of Indian Culture by Mukerji Dhurjati Prasad
This is an analytical study of an important phase of Indian Culture by an Indian thinker who made significant contributions to it for more than twenty-five years. D.P. Mukerji was a pioneer in the field of sociology of culture. This work is an endeavour to focus upon an area, which was dear to his heart.The British rule in India produced, among other things, a pseudo-middle class quite unlike their namesake elsewhere. They had no morrings in the social, economic and cultural traditions; they lost contact with the people. Yet they acquired a few values which were not in the bargain. These were badly grafted on the drying stock. But it was inevitable in view of the political purposes and economic motives of the rulers who set the pattern of culture. The author traces the consequences of this historical denial in the various aspects of the Indian renaissance—Literature, Religion, Art and Music. His socio-economic approach enables him to offer for the first time a synthetic account of the process which may be said to have ended in August 1947. This volume, therefore, is essential for the understanding of India of the recent past no less than for framing the immediate issues involved in the task of building Indian Culture on surer foundations.It is hoped that this work will continue to interest sociologists and scholars in the related fields.