Andre Beteille

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Andre Beteille,(born 30 September 1934) is an Indian sociologist and writer. He is well known for his studies of the caste system in South India.^[1]

Early life[]

He was born on 30 September 1934.

Career[]

Dr. Beteille receives the Padma Bhushan from the President of India A. P. J. Abdul Kalam, c. 2005.

He was a Professor of Sociology at the Delhi School of Economics at the University of Delhi where, since 2003, he remains Professor Emeritus of Sociology.^[2] He was appointed National Research Professor by the Government of India in 2007.^[3] He is a recipient of the Indian civilian honour of the Padma Bhushan and also FBA.^[4] He also served on the Social Sciences jury for the Infosys Prize in 2010.

Presently he is the Chancellor of North Eastern Hill University, Shillong, Meghalaya ^[5] and prior to that he was the Chancellor of Ashoka University.^[6]

Bibliography[]

• Sociology: Essays on Approach and Method, Oxford University Press, 2002.
• Antinomies of Society: Essays on Ideologies and Institutions, Oxford University Press, 2000.
• Chronicles of Our Time, Penguin Books, 2000.
• The Backward Classes in Contemporary India, Oxford University Press, 1992.
• Social and Cultural Reproduction of Caste, Kinship and Occupation in India, 1991.
• Society and Politics in India: Essays in a Comparative Perspective, Athlone Press, 1991 (L.S.E. Monographs in Social Anthropology, no. 63).
• The Idea of Natural Inequality and Other Essays, Oxford University Press, 1983 (new, enlarged edition, Oxford University Press, 1987).
• Inequality Among Men, Basil Blackwell, 1977 (Italian edition published as La diseguaglianza fra gli uomini, Il Mulino, 1981).
• Studies in Agrarian Social Structure, Oxford University Press, 1974.
• Six Essays in Comparative Sociology, Oxford University Press, 1974 (enlarged edition published as Essays in Comparative Sociology, Oxford University Press, 1987).
• Inequality and Social Change, Oxford University Press, 1972.
• Castes: Old and New, Essays in Social Structure and Social Stratification, Asia Publishing House, 1969.
• Caste, Class and Power: Changing Patterns of Stratification in a Tanjore Village, University of California Press, 1965.

Essays[]

• Secularism Re-examined
• Race & Caste
• Teaching & Research
• Teaching and Research, Andre Beteille
• Government & NGOs (scroll down)

References[]

External links[]

• Interviewed by Alan Macfarlane 1st June 1986 (video)
• Andre quits the knowledge commission - CNN-IBN news report
• A long view of two Indian social scientists