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Compare G. S. Ghurye’s and A. R. Desai’s approaches used in understanding Indian society.

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  • Perspectives on the Study of Indian Society

G. S. Ghurye and A. R. Desai came from the same Bombay school: Desai wrote Social Background of Indian Nationalism (1948) as a doctoral thesis under Ghurye's guidance. Yet they read Indian society in opposite ways: Ghurye through an Indological-historical lens on culture, Desai through a dialectical-historical materialist lens on property relations.

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