Sociology in South Asia
Heritage and Challenges

Editors: Partha Nath Mukherji, Jacop Aikara, Chandan Sengupta

Contents
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• Introduction
• Nation-State Reformulated: Interrogating Received Wisdom
  Partha Nath Mukherji
• Pseudo-Modernization and its Impact on the Process of Nation-building in Sri Lanka
  S.T. Hettige
• Institution Building in South Asia: Dilemmas and Experience
  T. K. Oommen
• Political Parties and Societal Values
  Satish Saberwal
• Gender and Inequality in Sri Lankan Society: A Sociological Perspective
  S. R. de S. Jayatilaka
• NGO Failure and the Need to Bring Back the State
  S. Akbar Zaidi
• The Challenges of Development and the Role of the Social Scientist
  M. Asaduzzaman

Proceedings of the ISA Conference for South Asia
Mumbai, India, March 25-27, 1997