The Status of Sociology in Independent India

W HEN Barnes and Becker prepared the second volume of their useful work Social Thought from Lore to Science in 1938, two Indian sociologists, Radha Kamal Mukerjee and Haridas T. Mazumdar, prepared papers on "Sociology in India" for the chapter dealing with that country.' Mukerjee wrote, "As the newest among the subjects which have been introduced into an Indian University, it [sociology] is taught systematically only in the universities of Calcutta, Lucknow and Mysore." Mazumdar, writing in the same vein, stated,