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Write a note on G.S. Ghurye’s Indological perspective of understanding Indian society.

  • UPSC 2018
  • Perspectives on the Study of Indian Society

For G. S. Ghurye, India is not a collection of villages to be surveyed but a civilisation to be read. His Indological perspective holds that the organising ideas of Indian society lie preserved in its classical literature, and that the sociologist's first task is to recover them.

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