TY  - JOUR
KW  - Indology
KW  -  anthropology
KW  -  philology
KW  -  caste
KW  -  colonialism
KW  -  transculturality
CY  - Los Angeles, Calif. ; New Delhi
VL  - 54
N2  - In this article, I aim to show how Louis Dumont?s famous claim that ?the condition for a sound development of Sociology of India is found in the establishment of the proper relation between it and classical Indology? has become obsolete and was from the beginning a problematic postulate. I first develop the historical background of the denigration of anthropological approaches in India against the rise of an idealising Indology as a philological discipline. Then I discuss the structural, methodological and ideological problems that made it difficult to follow Dumont?s advice to search for the point of confluence of sociology and Indology. Finally, I place Dumont?s holistic approach in relation to the holistic structure of academic disciplines that emerged in the 19th century on the basis of the nation-state model and argue that it is misleading and reductive to think that ?the construction of an Indian Sociology rests in part upon the existence of Indology?.
EP  - 387
IS  - 3
A1  - Michaels, Axel
SP  - 357
JF  - Contributions to Indian Sociology
ID  - heidok29008
AV  - public
Y1  - 2020///
N1  - Dieser Beitrag ist aufgrund einer (DFG-geförderten) Allianz bzw. Nationallizenz frei zugänglich. *** This publication is freely accessible due to an Alliance licence and a national licence (funded by the DFG, German Research Foundation) respectively.
TI  - ?At the point of confluence of sociology and Indology?: Louis Dumont?s postulate reconsidered
PB  - Sage (Publ.)
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1177/0069966720945513
SN  - 0069-9667 (Druck-Ausg.), 0973-0648 (Online-Ausg.)
ER  -