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G. S. Ghurye

{{Short description|Founder of Indian sociology (1893–1983)}}

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| birth_date = {{Birth date|df=yes|1893|12|12}}

| birth_place = Malvan, Bombay Presidency, British India

| death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|1983|12|28|1893|12|12}}{{sfn|Momin|1996|p=28}}

| death_place = Bombay, Maharashtra, India{{sfn|Pillai|1997|p=101}}

| citizenship = Indian (formerly British subject

| nationality = Indian

| fields = Sociology, Anthropology

| workplaces = University of Bombay

| alma_mater = University of Cambridge

| doctoral_advisor = W. H. R. Rivers & A. C. Haddon

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| spouse = Sajubai Ghurye.

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Govind Sadashiv Ghurye (12 December 1893 – 28 December 1983) was a pioneering Indian academic who was a professor of sociology.{{Sfnm|1a1=Momin|1y=1996|1p=4|2a1=Pillai|2y=1997|2p=13}} In 1924, he became the second person to head the Department of Sociology at the University of Bombay.{{sfn|University of Mumbai}} And, is widely regarded as the founder of Indian Sociology & Sociology in India.

Early life

G S Ghurye was born, in a Saraswat Brahmin community{{Cite journal|date=2015-06-05|title=Obituary GS Ghurye|url=https://www.epw.in/journal/1984/1/uncategorised/obituary-gs-ghurye.html|journal=Economic and Political Weekly|language=en|volume=19|issue=1|pages=7–8}} on 12 December 1893, at Malvan, in present-day Maharashtra.{{sfn|Pillai|1997|p=101}} His early schooling was at the Aryan Education Society's High School, Girgaum, in Bombay, and then at Bahadur Khanji High School, Junagadh, in the princely state of Junagadh.{{sfn|Pillai|1997|p=101}} He joined Bahauddin college at Junagarh, in 1912, but moved on to Elphinstone College, Bombay, after a year, and received his B. A. (Sanskrit) and M. A. (Sanskrit) degrees from there.{{Sfnm|1a1=Pillai|1y=1997|1p=101|2a1=Tikekar|2a2=Ṭikekara|2y=2006|2p=106}} He earned the #{{harvid with his B. A., and the Chancellor's gold medal with his M. A. degree.{{Sfnm|1a1=Pillai|1y=1997|1p=101|2a1=Tikekar|2a2=Ṭikekara|2y=2006|2p=106}} After completing his M. A., Ghurye received a scholarship for further studies in England, and earned his PhD from Cambridge University in 1922.{{sfn|Pillai|1997|p=101}} Ghurye was deeply influenced by W. H. R. Rivers, who was his PhD guide.{{harvnb|Momin|1996|pp=2–3}}, Chapter author:M. N. Srinivas; {{harvnb|Momin|1996|p=20}} Chapter author:Dhirendra Narain After Rivers' untimely death in 1922, he completed his thesis under A. C. Haddon.

Personal life

Ghurye was married to #{{harvid of Vengurla, a town near Malwan.{{sfn|Pillai|1997|p=101}} His son, Sudhish Ghurye is a Mathematician and Statistician, and daughter Kumud G. Ghurye was a barrister.{{harvnb|Pillai|1997|p=102}}; {{harvnb|Momin|1996|pp=15, 27}}, Chapter author:Dhirendra Narain; {{harvnb|Momin|1996|pp=37}} Chapter author:Sadanand Bhatkal

Career

Ghurye was appointed as Head of the Department of Sociology in Bombay University in 1924, and retired in 1959.{{Sfnm|1a1=Pillai|1y=1997|1p=102|2a1=Pillai|2y=1976|2pp=27–28|3a1=University of Mumbai|3y=_}} The department was founded by Patrick Geddes in 1919.{{Sfnm|1a1=Pillai|1y=1997|1pp=119–123|2a1=University of Mumbai|2y=_}} However, when Ghurye took it over, it was on the verge of closure. The department came alive once again with Ghurye, and now, Ghurye is regarded as the real founder{{sfn|Pillai|1997|pp=119–123}} and "shaped" the study of sociology there from then on.{{cite book |title=Sociology and Social Anthropology in India |editor-first=Yogesh |editor-last=Atal |publisher=Pearson Education India |year=2009 |isbn=9788131720349 |page=60 |chapter=Anthropological Studies of Indian Tribes |first1=Vinay Kumar |last1=Srivastava |first2=Sukant K. |last2=Chaudury |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1Z2E1q1JLVsC&pg=PA51}}

He also founded the Indian Sociological Society and its newsletter, Sociological Bulletin, and served as head for both.{{Sfnm|1a1=Pillai|1y=1997|1pp=102, 123–124|2a1=University of Mumbai|2y=_}} He also headed the Bombay Anthropological Society for some years.{{sfn|Pillai|1997|p=102}}

After retirement, he served as Professor Emeritus for Bombay University and at least three festschrifts were produced in his honour, of which two were during his lifetime.{{Sfnm|1a1=Pillai|1y=1997|1pp=14, 102–103|2a1=University of Mumbai|2y=_}} He guided a total of 80 research theses and authored 32 books and a number of other papers.{{harvnb|Pillai|1997|pp=103, 126-}}; {{harvnb|Pillai|1976|pp=29–40}} (a discussion of Ghurye's works, see list on p 40); {{harvnb|University of Mumbai}} Later, at least two theses were written on him.{{Sfnm|1a1=Pillai|1y=1997|1pp=103, 392|2a1=University of Mumbai|2y=_}}

Among his students were personalities like noted social reformer and intellectual Dr. Uttamrao K. Jadhav,{{cite book|last=Jadhav|first=Uttamrao|title=Is Capital Punishment Necessary?|year=1972|publisher=Anand Publications|location=Mumbai}} A. J. Agarkar, Y. M. Rege, L. N. Chapekar, M. G. Kulkarni, M. S. A. Rao, Iravati Karve, C. Rajagopalan, Y. B. Damle, M.N. Srinivas, A. R. Desai, D. Narain, I. P. Desai, M. S. Gore, Suma Chitnis and Victor D'Souza.{{Sfnm|1a1=Pillai|1y=1997|1pp=111, 270|2a1=University of Mumbai|2y=_}} He also had the opportunity to see the #{{harvid being instituted in his honour.{{sfn|Pillai|1997|p=124}} His book #{{harvid is regarded as a classic in the field.{{sfn|Pillai|1976|p=29}}

Publications

{{refbegin|2}}

  • {{cite book

|ref={{harvid|CasteandRaceinIndia}}

|author=G.S. Ghurye

|title=Caste and race in India

|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nWkjsvf6_vsC

|year=2008

|orig-year=1932

|publisher=Popular Prakashan

|isbn=978-81-7154-205-5

}}{{sfn|Pillai|1976|p=29}}

  • {{cite book

|author=Govind Sadashiv Ghurye

|title=The aborigines -"so-called" – and their future

|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LLQeAQAAIAAJ

|year=1943

|publisher=Pub. by D.R. Gadgil for the economics

}}

  • {{cite book

|author=G. S. Ghurye

|title=Indian costume, bhāratīya veṣabhūsā

|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6MNxQwAACAAJ

|year=1951

|publisher=the Popular book depot

}}

  • {{cite book

|author=Govind Sadashiv Ghurye

|title=Race relations in Negro Africa

|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Nls9AAAAMAAJ

|year=1952

|publisher=Asia Pub. House

}}

  • {{cite book

|author=Govind Sadashiv Ghurye

|title=Indian Sadhus

|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=L5dCAQAAIAAJ

|year=1995

|orig-year=1953

|publisher=Puopular Prakashan, Bombay

}}

  • {{cite book

|author=Govind Sadashiv Ghurye

|title=Sexual Behaviour of the American Female

|url=https://openlibrary.org/works/OL16811260W/

|year=1956

|publisher=Current Book House

}}

  • {{cite book

|author=Govind Sadashiv Ghurye

|title=Caste and class in India

|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uMk9AAAAMAAJ

|year=1957

|publisher=Popular Book Depot

}}

  • {{cite book

|author=Govind Sadashiv Ghurye

|title=Bhāratanāṭya and its costume

|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9wv0AAAAMAAJ

|year=1958

|publisher=Popular Book Depot

}}

  • {{cite book

|author=Govind Sadashiv Ghurye

|title=After a century and a quarter: Lonikand then and now

|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xL5HAAAAMAAJ

|year=1960

|publisher=Popular Book Depot

}}

  • {{cite book

|author=Govind Sadashiv Ghurye

|title=Cities and civilization

|url=https://archive.org/details/citiescivilizati0000ghur

|url-access=registration

|year=1962

|publisher=Popular Prakashan

}}

  • {{cite book

|author=Govind Sadashiv Ghurye

|title=Gods and men, by G. S. Ghurye

|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ku8zcgAACAAJ

|year=1962

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  • {{cite book

|author=Govind Sadashiv Ghurye

|title=Family and kin in Indo-European culture

|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1lwbAAAAYAAJ

|year=1962

|publisher=Popular Book Depot

}}

  • {{cite book

|author=Govind Sadashiv Ghurye

|title=The Mahadev Kolis

|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FJkaAAAAIAAJ

|year=1963

|publisher=Popular Prakashan

}}

  • {{cite book

|author=Govind Sadashiv Ghurye

|title=Anatomy of a rururban community

|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=z9oEAAAAMAAJ

|year=1963

|publisher=Popular Prakashan

}}

  • {{cite book

|author=Govind Sadashiv Ghurye

|title=Anthropo-sociological papers

|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kk9KAAAAMAAJ

|year=1963

|publisher=Popular Prakashan

}}

  • {{cite book

|author=Govind Sadashiv Ghurye

|title=Religious consciousness

|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RBk1AAAAIAAJ

|year=1965

|publisher=Popular Prakashan

}}

  • {{cite book

|author=Govind Sadashiv Ghurye

|title=Social tensions in India

|url=https://archive.org/details/socialtensionsin0000ghur_47

|url-access=registration

|year=1968

|publisher=Popular Prakashan

}}

  • {{cite book

|author=Govind Sadashiv Ghurye

|title=I and other explorations

|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HUaCgMj9BtsC

|year=1973

|publisher=Popular Prakashan

}}

  • {{cite book

|author=Govind Sadashiv Ghurye

|title=Whither India?

|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PngIAAAAMAAJ

|year=1974

|publisher=Popular Prakashan

}}

  • {{cite book

|author1=Govind Sadashiv Ghurye

|author2=S. Devadas Pillai

|title=Aspects of changing India: studies in honour of Prof. G. S. Ghurye

|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0NnsAAAAIAAJ

|year=1976

|publisher=Popular Prakashan

}}

  • {{cite book

|author=Govind Sadashiv Ghurye

|title=Indian acculturation: Agastya and Skanda

|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HLMtAAAAMAAJ

|year=1977

|publisher=Popular Prakashan

}}

  • {{cite book

|author=Govind Sadashiv Ghurye

|title=India recreates democracy

|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mbwlAAAAMAAJ

|year=1978

|publisher=Popular Prakashan

|isbn=9780842616072

}}

  • {{cite book

|author=G. S. Ghurye

|title=Legacy of the Ramayana

|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=D_eEZwEACAAJ

|date=December 1979

|publisher=South Asia Books

|isbn=978-0-8364-5760-5

}}{{Dead link|date=May 2024 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}

  • {{cite book

|author=Govind Sadashiv Ghurye

|title=Vedic India

|url=https://archive.org/details/vedicindia0000ghur

|url-access=registration

|year=1979

|publisher=Popular Prakashan

}}

  • {{cite book

|author=Govind Sadashiv Ghurye

|title=The scheduled tribes of India

|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pTNmCIc9hCUC&pg=PP1

|date=1 January 1980

|orig-year=1963

|publisher=Transaction Publishers

|isbn=978-0-87855-692-2

|pages=1–

}}

  • {{cite book

|author=Govind Sadashiv Ghurye

|title=The burning caldron of north-east India

|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ShlDAAAAYAAJ

|year=1980

|publisher=Popular Prakashan

}}

  • {{cite book

|author=G.S. Ghurye

|title=Rajput Architecture

|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hCtnWt3Jhb4C

|date=1 January 2005

|publisher=Popular Prakashan

|isbn=978-81-7154-446-2

}}

{{refend}}

References

Notes

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  1. {{Wikicite

|ref={{harvid|Footnote1}}

|reference=Pillai, S. Devadas. Indian sociology through Ghurye, a dictionary, "Bhau Daji Lad was a scholar and reform-activist, a nationalist of Bombay [Mumbai] in the second half of the 19th cent."{{sfn|Pillai|1997|p=101}}

}}

  1. {{Wikicite

|ref={{harvid|Footnote3}}

|reference=Dhirendra Narain, The legacy of G.S. Ghurye: a centennial festschrift, "Mrs. Sajubai Ghurye is one of the early authors on cookery, a little too flourishing and profitable a branch of writing these days. Her book in Marathi, my wife tells me, is very good—very accurate in measurement and very systematic in its directions."{{sfn|Momin|1996|p=30}}

}}

  1. {{Wikicite

|ref={{harvid|Footnote2}}

|reference=Pillai, S. Devadas. Indian sociology through Ghurye, a dictionary, "The Bombay Univ instituted an annual Ghurye Award (qv), during his lifetime, to encourage authors in sociology and anthropology."{{sfn|Pillai|1997|p=103}}

}}

{{refend}}

Citations

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Bibliography

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  • {{cite book

|ref={{harvid|Momin|1996}}

|editor-last=Momin

|editor-first=A. R.

|last1=Srinivas

|first1=M. N.

|last2=Bhadra

|first2=R. K.

|last3=Bhatkal

|first3=Sadanand

|last4=Bose

|first4=Pradip Kumar

|title=The legacy of G.S. Ghurye: a centennial festschrift

|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MICwQzKoDO8C&pg=PP4

|access-date=7 October 2011

|year=1996

|publisher=Popular Prakashan

|isbn=978-81-7154-831-6

|display-authors=etal}}

  • {{cite book

|first=S. Devadas

|last=Pillai

|title=Indian sociology through Ghurye, a dictionary

|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=P3uD22Ghqs4C&pg=PR13

|access-date=7 October 2011

|year=1997

|publisher=Popular Prakashan

|isbn=978-81-7154-807-1

}}

  • {{cite book

|last=Pillai

|first=S.D.

|year=1976

|title=Studies in Honour of Prof. G.S. Ghurye

|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vbNCo99qp48C&pg=PA27

|access-date=9 October 2011

|publisher=Popular Prakashan

|isbn=978-81-7154-157-7

}}

  • {{cite book

|last1=Tikekar

|first1=Aroon

|last2=Ṭikekara

|first2=Aruṇa

|title=The cloister's pale: a biography of the University of Mumbai

|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dz9wl5vvKCAC&pg=PA106

|access-date=10 October 2011

|year=2006

|orig-year=1984

|publisher=By Popular Prakashan for The University of Mumbai

|isbn=978-81-7991-293-5

}}

  • {{cite web

|title=Department of Sociology:About the department

|last=University of Mumbai

|url=http://www.mu.ac.in/arts/social_science/Sociology/profile.html

|year=

|url-status=dead

|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110923084522/http://www.mu.ac.in/arts/social_science/Sociology/profile.html

|archive-date=23 September 2011

|df=dmy

}}

{{refend}}

Further reading

  • {{cite journal |title=The 'Bombay School' and Urban Sociology in India |first=N. |last=Jayaram |journal=Sociological Bulletin |volume=62 |issue=2 |date=May–August 2013 |pages=311–323 |jstor=23621067 |doi=10.1177/0038022920130208 |s2cid=151447109 }}
  • {{cite book |chapter=G. S. Ghurye on Culture and Nation-Building |first=C. N. |last=Venugopal |title=Readings in Indian Sociology: Volume X: Pioneers of Sociology in India |editor-first=Ishwar |editor-last=Modi |publisher=SAGE Publishing |year=2013 |isbn=978-8-13211-844-2 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AxhBDwAAQBAJ}}

External links

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  • [http://malvancity.com/fame_person.htm#Ghurye Malvancity: Dr. G S Ghurye] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120317073942/http://www.malvancity.com/fame_person.htm#Ghurye |date=17 March 2012 }}

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