Readings in Indian Sociology : Volume II: Sociological Probings in Rural Society/ K. L. Sharma

Cover; Contents; Series Note; Foreword; Preface and Acknowledgements; Introduction: Reconceptualising The Indian Village;

SECTION I --Rural Society and Rural-Urban Relations
1 -- Rural Sociology: Its Need in India
2 --Symposium on Rural-Urban Relations: The Industrialization and Urbanization of Rural Areas
3 --Modernization and the Urban-Rural Gap in India: An Analysis
4 --'Fringe' Society and the Folk-Urban Continuum
5 --Rural Family Patterns: A Study in Urban-Rural Relations

SECTION II --Social Stratification in Rural India
6 --Measurement of Rigidity-Fluidity Dimension of Social Stratification in Six Indian Villages
7 --Bhadralok and Chhotolok in a Rural Area of West Bengal
8 --Caste System in Contemporary Rural Bihar: A Study of Selected Villages
9 --Power Elite in Rural India :Some Questions and Clarifications
10 --Social Stratification and Institutional Change in a Gujarat Village

SECTION III --Village Profiles
11 --Chokhala-An IntervillageOrganization of a Caste in Rajasthan
12 --Modernization and Changing Fertility Behaviour: A Study in a Rajasthan Village
13 --Ideology, Power and Resistance in a South Indian Village
14 --Voices from the Earth: Work and Food Production in a Punjabi Village

SECTION IV --Religion and Rituals
15 --Public Shrines and Private Interests: The Symbolism of the Village Temple
16 --A Study of Customs in Rural Mysore
17 --Ritual Circles in a Mysore Village

SECTION V --Social Change in Rural India
18 --Study of Social Change in Independent Rural India: Critical Issues for Analyses in the Fourth Decade of Independence
19 --Downward Social Mobility: Some Observations
20 --Dimensions of Agrarian Structure and Change: Issues in Theory