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Write short notes with a sociological perspective: Salient features of A.R. Desai’s Marxist Sociology.

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  • Perspectives on the Study of Indian Society

What makes A. R. Desai's work Marxist is not only its conclusions about India but its position on sociology itself. Writing when American structural-functionalism and British functionalism dominated the discipline, he observed that the approaches ruling Indian sociology were non-Marxist and that Marxism had been dismissed in advance as dogmatic, value-loaded and deterministic. His reply…

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  • Marxism claimed as the relevant approach for the discipline
  • Rejection of value-neutrality
  • Critique of structural-functionalism
  • Critique of Indology
  • Historical specificity and empirical application
  • Limitations
  • …and 1 more sections, with a conclusion

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