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	Publisher: K P Bagchi & Co, Kolkata
	Author Amal Chattopadhyay
	Language: English
	Pages: 221
	Cover: HARDCOVER
	8.5x5.5 inch
	Weight 340 gm
	Edition: 1994
	ISBN: 8170741475
	HBN891

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About the Book The Central aim of this study is to highlight the beginning of Indian Social thinking in a systematic way and the role played by Bhupendranath Datta in the birth of Indian Sociology. In his early youth Bhupendranath Datta engaged himself in revolutionary activities aimed at the over-throw of foreign rule. During his sojourn in America and Europe he came in contact with the emigree Indian Revolutionary leaders and American and German working class leaders and working movements. He was also exposed to liberal and radical European intellectual traditions. In his latter life he organized the movement of peasants, workers, students and youths of Bengal. He also tried to give a theoretical foundation to the development of mass movement through his study of Indian society and culture from the stand-point of dialectical and historical materialism. In this book the Author has tried to provide a critical account of the philosophical foundation of Bhupendranath Datta's social theory, the problem he faced in liberating contemporary intellectual traditions which distorted the image of Indian society and culture and also his attempt to provide a method and a perspective for the study of Indian society and culture. The Author has tried to give a critical account of the major areas of Dr. Datta's sociological investigation including his limitation and also the continuing relevance of Bhupendranath Datta's intellectual project for the study of Indian society and culture.

About the Author Amal Chattopadhyay was born in 1942. He was educated at Berhampore K. N. College and Calcutta Presidency College. After graduation he joined the West Bengal Civil Service (Executive) in 1965 and served in different parts of West Bengal in various capacities. He took his M.A. in 1979 and his Ph.D in 1989 from the University of Burdwan. He is at present the Joint Secretary to the Government of West Bengal and engaged in research on the pioneers of Indian Sociology. Area of his interest in research includes Marxist social theory, post-modern society and social theory, sociology and philosophy of science and the recovery of intellectual, social and cultural basis of an alternative vision for human civilization.

Preface The book comes out of the Ph.D. thesis submitted to the University of Burdwan in 1988. In this thesis we have tried to see the contributions of Bhupendranath Datta as a Pioneer of Indian Sociology. Sociology as a science of social crisis should help us to understand our life in society and show the way to a fundamental transformation of society. Bhupendranath Datta lived the life of a revolutionary, a communist activist and a marxist social thinker. He believed that a radical transformation of society cannot be achieved by political means alone. The old society is not held together by force and violence only. It maintains itself through ideologies and theories which exerted great influence upon the consciousness of men so that men submit to an unequal and oppressive social order willingly. He, therefore, felt that it is nearly impossible to achieve human emancipation and to establish an equalitarian and human social world without criticising the existing social ideas and theories and without exposing the obsolence of the social, economic and cultural institutions of the society. He also believed that there is no way for criticising the old society, the old social theory and also the everyday conceptions of the social world which shape practical life without undertaking a new practice. He, therefore, tried to combine a radical theory with a radical practice. Yet Bhupendranath Datta is now-a-days a forgotten name. He is generally remembered as a terrorist revolutionary. His political and intellectual contributions are often neglected. We have tried in this book to present Bhupendranath Datta as a radical social thinker who sought to transform our society fundamentally through a radical social action based on a radical social theory. We also have tried to show the continuing relevance of his intellectual contributions for future development of Indian social thinking.

Introduction Indian society and its civilisation are very old. So is the tradition of social thinking in India. This corpus of thinking manifested itself in various philosophical, religious, political, economic, ethical and aesthetic beliefs and ideas. These together constitute the sources from which social thinking in India had been constructed. But social thinking in its specifically systematic form emerged in India in the early twentieth century, after the British conquest beginning with Bengal in 1757. India came under the full British control over a period of nearly one hundred years from the middle of the eighteenth to the middle of the nineteenth century. This period saw profound changes in the socio-economic and cultural life of the country. These changes induced by the colonial rule aggravated the existing internal contra-dictions and created new contradictions in the economy and society. The task of ruling an alien country compelled the rulers to collect various information's about the socio-economic organisations and cultural life of the people. Along with the administrators, many Christian Missionaries and other European intellectuals also began to collect and interpret various information's. These contributed to the growth of social science in India-ethnology, social anthropology. sociography and so on. These findings and interpretations of Indian society provided the basic elements for formulating the colonial policy. These writings and interpretations contained ideological bias which distorted the image of Indian socio-economic institutions and culture and provided a justification for imperialist rule of the country. On the other hand, the consolidation of foreign rule produced severe disruption of the life of the people. This was reflected in the deepening distress of the Indian people. A section of the Indian intellectuals, created through the introduction of western education and culture, became aware of the distorted image of Indian society projected by the European scholars and the British administrative officials' pioneers of Indian sociology. Indian social thinking, therefore, arose a response to these critical situations by way of an investigation of the problems of Indian society and also as a critique of the emerging contradictory social situations.

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