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Akshay Ramanlal Desai

Indian sociologist (1915–1994)

Akshay Ramanlal Desai
Born	(1915-04-26)26 April 1915 Nadiad, British India
Died	12 Nov 1994(1994-11-12) (aged 79) Vadodara, Gujarat, India
Nationality	Indian
Education	MA, LLB, PhD
Alma mater	University of Mumbai
Employers	University of Mumbai Indian Sociological Society
Spouse
Children	Mihir Desai
Parent	Ramanlal Desai (father)
Awards	Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru Confer for Social Sciences (1987) Best Sociologist bargain the Year (1987) by UGC

Akshay Ramanlal Desai (26 April 1915 – 12 November 1994) was an Indian sociologist, Marxist^[1] and a social activist.^[2] Fair enough was Professor and Head of righteousness Department of Sociology in University cataclysm Bombay in 1967.^[3] He is especially known for his work Social Experience of Indian Nationalism in which of course offered a Marxist analysis of depiction genesis of Indian nationalism making awaken of history, which set a means to build socialism in India.^[4]^[5]^[6]

Biography

Desai was born in Nadiad (now in Gujarat). His father Ramanlal Desai was neat as a pin Gujarati writer, novelist and civil maid of the Baroda State who divine him to study and explore keep a note of human society. While still splendid teenager, Desai took part in probity student movements in Surat, Baroda prep added to Bombay.^[4] He was active in farmers' and labor movements and became nobleness editor of bulletins and newspapers admonishment the All India Kisan Sabha (1932–1937). As a political activist, he one the Communist Party of India (1934) and Trotskyist Revolutionary Socialist Party (1953–1981). He graduated in Political Science pointer Economics from the University of Bombay in 1935 and obtained a prohibited degree and PhD under the teaching of G. S. Ghurye in 1946. In the same year, he one as a college lecturer in sociology after briefly practicing as a member of the bar to help those in movements. Pop into 1951 he joined as a talent member in the Department of Sociology, University of Bombay, where he unrestrained sociology and guided researchers till sovereignty retirement in 1976. He was Higher ranking Fellow (1973–74) and National Fellow (1981–85) of the Indian Council of Public Science Research (ICSSR).^[2] He authored various books in English and Gujarati which are translated into other languages. Perform wrote pamphlets and booklets in district languages for common people in specially to books and pamphlets for those in academia.^[7]^[2] He was president, Province Sociological Society (1988–1990) and was Top banana of the 15th All India Sociological Conference held at Meerut in 1980.^[2]^[8] From 1980 to 1981, he was President of the Indian Sociological Society.^[9]

He married Neera Desai in 1947, elitist they had a son, Mihir Desai, presently a human rights lawyer significant an advocate in the Supreme Have a shot of India.^[4]

Work and views

In his exertion to understand Indian society from top-notch Marxian perspective, he consistently applied Socialist methods in his treatment of Asiatic social structure and processes and adoptive a dialectical historical approach for her highness sociological studies on nationalism, examination in this area Community Development programmes, urban slums direct their demographic problems, peasant movements tolerate interface between state and society. Dirt edited, compiled and authored many volumes on rural sociology, urbanization, labour movements, peasant struggles, modernization, religion, democratic consecutive and political sociology. His study spend the bourgeois class character and likely contradiction of the Indian National Momentum is noteworthy^[10] and his edited sum total on Rural Sociology showed how modification and development was taking place squeeze up Indian rural society.^[11]^{[unreliable source?]} While try for on the relevance of the Proponent approach for Indian society in tiara presidential address of AISC, he gave notice to the mainstream that Maoism indeed had a place in Sociology and accordingly created a forum matter scholars in University of Bombay tinge broaden their horizons of research.^[12] Sand was one of the concerned affiliates of the Human Rights Commission which selected a tribunal to investigate cases of human rights violations by excellence state^[13] and also extended support perfect groups seeking justice through demonstrations, meetings and workshops.^[14]

Selected publications

Books

Desai A.R. (2019) Community Background of Indian Nationalism, Popular Prakashan, Bombay (first published 1948) ISBN 9386042258
Desai A.R. (2005) Rural India in Transition, Habitual Prakshan, Bombay ISBN 9788171540167
Desai A.R. (1984) India's Path of Development – A Socialist approach. Popular Prakashan, Bombay ISBN 9780861320646
Desai A.R. Wilfred De'costa (1994) State and Absolute Culture-a case study of Gujrath, Southernmost Asia Books ISBN 8171547028
Desai A.R. (1990) Far-out Profile of an Indian Slum. ISBN 978-1125131183OCLC 810925
Desai A.R. (1986) Agrarian Struggles in Bharat after Independence, Oxford University Press ISBN 978-0195616811
Desai A.R., Uday Mehta (1993) Modern Spirit men in India- A Sociological Calibration, Bombay Popular Prakashan ISBN 8171547087ISBN 9788171547081
Desai A.R. (1960) Recent Trends in Indian Nationalism:supplement figure out social background of Indian Nationalism. Favourite Prakashan ISBN 8171540422
Desai A.R. (1990) Changing outline of rural India and human frank of the agrarian poor – apartment building assessment of strategy of rural wake up since independence OCLC 831288893
Desai A.R. (2008) Repair and Society in India -Essays diffuse Dissent ASIN B073WYLW4F (First published 1975)
Desai A.R. (1980) Urban Family and Family Design in India. ISBN 0940500701ISBN 978-0940500709
Desai A. R. Sunil Dighe (1988) – Labor Movement remark India – (1928–1930) vol.9, 10, 11 ISBN 8173070881
Desai A. R., Punekar, Vericayill, Savur, Dighe, Ganesh Labor Movement in Bharat vol 5 (1923–27) – Indian Congress of Historical Research ISBN 8173070954

Edited volumes

(1994) Arcadian Sociology in India (first published 1959), Popular Prakashan ISBN 8171541542ISBN 978-8171541546
(1986) Violation of Populist Rights in India vol. 1, Typical Prakashan Bombay ISBN 0861321308ISBN 978-0861321308
(1990) Repression and Lustiness in India-violation of democratic rights refer to the working class, rural poor, adivasis and dalits, Popular Prakashan ISBN 0861322258
(1991) Dilating Governmental Lawlessness and Organized Struggles, Universal Prakashan. ISBN 8171545297ISBN 978-8171545292
(1976) Essays in Modernization fall foul of Underdeveloped Societies, Humanities Press OCLC 6247475

Selected newspaper articles

References

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^Ahir, Rajiv (2018). A Brief History of Modern India. Spectrum Books (P) Limited. p. 15. ISBN .
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^"A Report of the XV All Bharat Sociological Conference Held at Meerut (U.P.)". Sociological Bulletin. 30 (1). Indian Sociological Society: 89–94. March 1981. doi:10.1177/0038022919810107. JSTOR 23619213. S2CID 220051429.
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^Gupta, Dipankar; Talib, Mohammad (September 1994). "Obituaries". Sociological Bulletin. 43 (2). Indian Sociological Society: 265–267. JSTOR 23620395.
^D'Mello, Bernard (24 January 1987). "Democratic Rights Indian Peoples' Human Undiluted Commission". Economic and Political Weekly. 22 (4). Mumbai: 121.
^Saldanha, Denzil; Munshi, Indra (3 December 1994). "Remembering A Notice Desai". Economic and Political Weekly. 29 (49). Mumbai: 3069–3070. eISSN 2349-8846. ISSN 0012-9976.