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Differentiate between ‘Western’ and ‘Indological’ perspectives on the study of Indian society. Bring out the major aspects of G. S. Ghurye’s contribution to ‘Indological’ approach.

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  • Perspectives on the Study of Indian Society

Indian sociology began as an argument about who owns the categories. The Western perspective, born of European positivism and colonial ethnography, treated India as one more case for universal concepts of class and modernisation. The Indological perspective — descended from Sir William Jones' Asiatic Society (1784) and institutionalised by G. S. Ghurye — held that…

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