Political Science · Political Processes in India
UGC NET Dec 2014 Political Science
Who has described Indian society as a 'Political Society'?
ARajni Kothari ✓ Correct
BW.H. Morris-Jones
CStanley Kochanek
DPaul R Brass
Correct answer: (A) Rajni Kothari — Rajni Kothari is the thinker identified here with describing Indian society as a deeply political society.
Explanation
★Rajni Kothari is the thinker identified here with describing Indian society as a deeply political society.
★In his classic "Politics in India" (1970), he placed the state and politics at the centre of Indian social life.
★He argued that caste, community and tradition were drawn into the democratic process rather than disappearing.
★W.H. Morris-Jones is known for the idioms of Indian politics, the modern, the traditional and the saintly.
★Stanley Kochanek studied business and interest-group politics, while Paul Brass worked on ethnicity and language.
★For this thinker-link, recall Kothari's "Politics in India" and the centrality of politics in Indian society.
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