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Professor '''Arvind M. Shah''' retired from his professorship in the Department of Sociology at the [[University of Delhi]] in 1996. He had been a student of [[M. N. Srinivas]] in 1952 and became a teacher in sociology at [[Maharaja Sayajirao University]], [[Baroda]], in 1958. He moved to the University of Delhi in 1961.<ref>{{cite book |title=The Writings of A. M. Shah The Household and Family in India |first=Arvind M. |last=Shah |publisher=Orient Longman |year=2014 |isbn=978-8-12505-340-8 |chapter=Foreword}}</ref><br />
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According to [[Hetukar Jha]], Shah wrote the first paper on the sociological history of India.<ref>{{cite news |title=A look at India with a sociological approach |work=The Telegraph |date=12 December 2015 |url=https://www.telegraphindia.com/1151212/jsp/bihar/story_57959.jsp#.WP8kgUe1vxM |accessdate=2017-04-25}}</ref> He was a recipient of the Lifetime Achievement award from the [[Indian Sociological Society]] (ISS) in 2009.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.insoso.org/about/about |title=About Indian Sociological Society |publisher=Indian Sociological Society |accessdate=2017-04-24}}</ref> He had held the office of ISS President in 1992-93 and had been secretary, sometimes jointly, from 1967 to 1972.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.insoso.org/images/pdfs/office_bearers_overthe_yars.pdf |title=Office Bearers Over The Years |publisher=Indian Sociological Society |accessdate=2017-04-24 }}{{Dead link|date=October 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref><br />
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==Publications==<br />
Among Shah's publications, his ''The Household Dimension of the Family in India'' (1973) is regarded as a landmark study and in 2014 was re-issued in a single volume titled '' The Writings of A. M. Shah: The Household and Family in India'', which included some of his later writings on the subject - ''The Family in India: Critical Essays'' (1998) and ''Essays on the Family and the Elderly''.<ref>{{cite web |title=The Writings of A.M. Shah: The Household and Family in India |publisher=Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University }}</ref><br />
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==Awards and honours==<br />
A [[festschrift]] in Shah's honour was published in 2010, entitled ''Understanding Indian Society: Past and Present (Essays for A M Shah)''.<ref>{{cite journal |journal=Journal of Social and Economic Development |volume=13 |issue=2 |date=June 2011 |title=Book Review |first=Padmini |last=Swaminathan}}</ref><br />
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