Thinking Social Science in India Essays in Honour of Alice Thorner

This festschrift to Alice Horner is primarily concerned with the thematic concerns that motivated Horner and her late husband in their scholarly work: work and labor, industrialization and capitalism, family and household, demography and culture, and politics. Thirty- one essays, presented by Patel (sociology, U. of Pune, India), Bagchi (women's studies, Jadavpur U., India) and Raj (editor, The Economic and Political Weekly), are divided into four sections that explore themes and methodologies used by Horner in analyzing agrarian Indian and gender, elaborate aspects of economic change since Indian independence, explore cultural assessment of contemporary India, and relate the colonial heritage to the contemporary political process. Also includes an appreciation of Horner and a bibliography of her writings. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR