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Sunlight On The Garden

Sunlight On The Garden

Andre Beteille
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André Béteille’s memoir, spanning his childhood, his schooldays and his early years as a sociologist, encompasses many worlds-that of colonial Chandannagar, where he spent his early years; of Patna and Calcutta, where he went to Englishmedium as well as Bengali-medium schools; and of his college days, where he started off as a physicist and then turned to sociology-a fi eld in which he was to win international renown.
There are unforgettable descriptions of his colonial childhood and his two grandmothers, one French and the other Bengali; and of momentous events he lived through such as famine, communal riots and Partition. Equally compelling are his portraits of family members, his neighbourhood, school friends, teachers and Calcutta’s intellectual stars, among them Sukhamoy Chakravarty and Amartya Sen. With its lucid and eloquent prose infused with acute sociological observations and insights into family relationships, childhood and adolescence, caste, class and community, this is a book that illumines the evolution of a brilliant teacher and scholar, even as it deepens our understanding of universal human dilemmas and desires.

Imprint: India Viking

Published: Sep/2012

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Sunlight On The Garden

Andre Beteille

André Béteille’s memoir, spanning his childhood, his schooldays and his early years as a sociologist, encompasses many worlds-that of colonial Chandannagar, where he spent his early years; of Patna and Calcutta, where he went to Englishmedium as well as Bengali-medium schools; and of his college days, where he started off as a physicist and then turned to sociology-a fi eld in which he was to win international renown.
There are unforgettable descriptions of his colonial childhood and his two grandmothers, one French and the other Bengali; and of momentous events he lived through such as famine, communal riots and Partition. Equally compelling are his portraits of family members, his neighbourhood, school friends, teachers and Calcutta’s intellectual stars, among them Sukhamoy Chakravarty and Amartya Sen. With its lucid and eloquent prose infused with acute sociological observations and insights into family relationships, childhood and adolescence, caste, class and community, this is a book that illumines the evolution of a brilliant teacher and scholar, even as it deepens our understanding of universal human dilemmas and desires.

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Andre Beteille

Andre Beteile is Professor Emeritus of Sociology in the university of Delhi. He has held visiting appointments at Cambridge, the London School of Economics, Erasmus University, Rotterdam, and various other institutions in Europe and America. He was also a fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study, Berlin, and a Visiting Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in Humanities, Edinburgh. He was a Jawaharlal Nehru Fellow from 1968 to 1970, and received the Jawaharlal Nehru National Award of the Government of Madhya Pradesh in 1994.
Apart from his newspaper articles, he has piublished extensively in scholarly periodicals in India and abrad. His books include Caste, Class and Power, Studies in Agrarian Social Structure, and Society and Politics in India. The book readings entitled Social Inequality, edited by him and published by Penguin Books in 1969, has been used in the teaching of sociology worldwide. A previous collectionof newspaper articles was published by Penguin Books India in 2000 under the title Chronicles of Our Time.
Professor Beteille is a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy and an Honoraray Fellow of the Royal Anthropological Institute.

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