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Write short note on Indological perspective of G. S. Ghurye.

  • UPSC 2009
  • Perspectives on the Study of Indian Society

The clearest way into G. S. Ghurye's Indological perspective is through his books, because the perspective was never stated as a manifesto — it was practised, across some thirty volumes, on caste, kinship, tribes, cities, religion, dress and architecture. Each applies the same procedure: take India's own textual and material record as evidence, and reconstruct…

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  • The procedure common to all of them
  • The perspective at work, book by book
  • What the corpus adds up to
  • Limits
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