G. S. Ghurye died on 1983-12-28.
G. S. Ghurye was born on 1893-12-12.
Professor G. S. Ghurye (1893-1983) is justifiably considered the doyen of Indian Sociology. On his return from Cambridge, where he wrote his doctoral dissertation under W.H.R. Rivers and later A.C. Haddon, Ghurye succeeded Sir Patric Geddes as Head of Department of Sociology in the University of Bombay in 1924. He continued to head the Department until his retirement in 1959. After retirement, he was designated the first Emeritus Professor in the University of Bombay. Ghurye's contribution to the development of sociology and anthropology in India is enormous and multi-faceted. A prolific writer, Ghurye wrote 32 books and scores of papers, which cover such wide-ranging themes as kinship and marriage, urbanization, ascetic traditions, tribal life, demography, architecture and literature. Ghurye played a key role in the professionalization of sociology by founding the Indian Sociological Society and its journal Sociological Bulletin. In addition, he encouraged and trained a large number of talented students who, in turn, advanced the frontiers of sociological and anthropological research in the country. With his own voluminous output and through the researches of his able students Ghurye embarked on an ambitious project of mapping out the ethnographic landscape of India.
G. S. Ghurye has written: 'The scheduled tribes of India' -- subject(s): Scheduled tribes 'Cities and civilization' -- subject(s): Cities and towns 'The scheduled tribes' -- subject(s): Native races, Indigenous peoples 'Occidental civilization' -- subject(s): Civilization, Western, Western Civilization 'Indian acculturation' 'The aborigines--\\' -- subject(s): Ethnology 'Anatomy of a rururban community' -- subject(s): Rural conditions 'Caste, class, and occupation' -- subject(s): Ethnology, Caste 'Family and kin in Indo-European culture' -- subject(s): Family, Kinship
S. K. Pramanick has written: 'Sociology of G.S. Ghurye'
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S. G. Kittappa died in 1933.
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G. S. Gai died in 1995.
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