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Write short notes with a sociological perspective on the following in 150 words : G.S. Ghurye’s Indological approach to understand society in India.
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- Perspectives on the Study of Indian Society
G. S. Ghurye's Indological approach makes a single, testable claim: because Indian civilisation wrote down its own rules of social life, those texts are primary sociological data. India is therefore studied as a civilisation carrying a continuous normative order, not as an aggregate of villages, and Indian concepts — dharma, varna, ashrama, purushartha — are…
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