M. N. Srinivas

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Mysore Narasimhachar Srinivas 1916–1999 was an Indian sociologist as well as social anthropologist. He is mostly invited for his realize on caste together with caste systems, Social stratification, Sanskritisation and Westernisation in southern India and a concept of 'Dominant Caste'. He is considered to be one of the pioneering personalities in the field of Sociology & Social anthropology in India as his make-up in Rampura later published as The Remembered Village manages one of the early examples of ethnography in India. This was in contrast to near of his contemporaries of the Bombay School, who were primary focusing on a historical methodology for conducting research mainly, in Indology.

Recognition

He received many honours from the University of Bombay, the Royal Anthropological Institute, and the Government of France; in 1977, he has received the Padma Bhushan from the President of India; and he was the honorary foreign piece of two academies: the British Academy and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. National Translation Mission of the Ministry of Human Resource Development of Government of India has selected his works, Social conform in innovative India and Caste in innovative India for translation into Indian languages. The latter one has already been published in Maithili language.