G. S. Ghurye

Govind Sadashiv Ghurye (12 December 1893 – 28 December 1983) was an Indian professor of sociology.Template:Sfnm In 1924, he became the second person to head the Department of Sociology at the University of Bombay.Template:Sfn

Education

Ghurye was born on 12 December 1893, at Malvan, in present-day Maharashtra.Template:Sfn His early schooling was at the Aryan Education Society's High School, Girgaum, in Bombay, and then at Bahadur Khanji High School, Junagadh, in the princely state of Janugadh.Template:Sfn He joined Bahauddin college at Junagarh, in 1912, but moved on to Elphinstone College, Bombay, after a year, and received his B. A. (Sanskrit) and M. A. (Sanskrit) degrees from there.Template:Sfnm He earned the [[#Template:Harvid|Bhau Daji prize]] with his B. A., and the Chancellor's gold medal with his M. A. degree.Template:Sfnm After completing his M. A., Ghurye received a scholarship for further studies in England, and earned his PhD from Cambridge University in 1922.Template:Sfn Ghurye was deeply influenced by W. H. R. Rivers, who was his PhD guide. After Rivers' untimely death in 1922, he completed his thesis under A. C. Haddon.

Personal life

Ghurye was married to [[#Template:Harvid|Sajubai]] of Vengurla, a town near Malwan.Template:Sfn His son, Sudhish Ghurye is a Mathematician and Statistician, and daughter Kumud G. Ghurye was a barrister.

Career

Ghurye was appointed as Head of Department of the Department of Sociology in Bombay University in 1924, and retired in 1959.Template:Sfnm The department was founded by Patrick Geddes in 1919.Template:Sfnm However, when Ghurye took it over, it was on the verge of closure. The department came alive once again with Ghurye, and now, Ghurye is regarded as the real founderTemplate:Sfn and "shaped" the study of sociology there from then on. He also founded the Indian Sociological Society and its newsletter, Sociological Bulletin, and served as head for both.Template:Sfnm He also headed the Bombay Anthropological Society for some years.Template:Sfn After retirement, he served as Professor Emeritus for Bombay University and at least three festschrifts were produced in his honour, of which two were during his lifetime.Template:Sfnm He guided a total of 80 research theses and authored 32 books and a number of other papers. Later, at least two theses were written on him.Template:Sfnm Among his students were personalities like noted social reformer and intellectual Dr. Uttamrao K. Jadhav, A. J. Agarkar, Y. M. Rege, L. N. Chapekar, M. G. Kulkarni, M. S. A. Rao, Iravati Karve, Y. B. Damle, M.N. Srinivas, A. R. Desai, D. Narain, I. P. Desai, M. S. Gore, Suma Chitnis and Victor D'Souza.Template:Sfnm He also had the opportunity to see the [[#Template:Harvid|"Dr. G. S. Ghurye Award"]] being instituted in his honour.Template:Sfn His book [[#Template:Harvid|Caste and race in India]] is regarded as a classic in the field.Template:Sfn

Publications

• Caste and race in India{{#if:|, {{{last}}}}. Popular Prakashan(2008). ISBN 978-81-7154-205-5Template:Sfn
• The aborigines -"so-called" – and their future{{#if:|, {{{last}}}}. Pub. by D.R. Gadgil for the economics(1943)
• Indian costume, bhāratīya veṣabhūsā{{#if:|, {{{last}}}}. the Popular book depot(1951)
• Race relations in Negro Africa{{#if:|, {{{last}}}}. Asia Pub. House(1952)

• Indian Sadhus{{#if:|, {{{last}}}}. Puopular Prakashan, Bombay(1995)

• Sexual Behaviour of the American Female{{#if:|, {{{last}}}}. Current Book House(1956)

• Caste and class in India{{#if:|, {{{last}}}}. Popular Book Depot(1957)
• Bhāratanāṭya and its costume{{#if:|, {{{last}}}}. Popular Book Depot(1958)
• After a century and a quarter: Lonikand then and now{{#if:|, {{{last}}}}. Popular Book Depot(1960)
• Cities and civilization{{#if:|, {{{last}}}}. Popular Prakashan(1962)
• Gods and men, by G. S. Ghurye{{#if:|, {{{last}}}}(1962)
• Family and kin in Indo-European culture{{#if:|, {{{last}}}}. Popular Book Depot(1962)
• The Mahadev Kolis{{#if:|, {{{last}}}}. Popular Prakashan(1963)
• Anatomy of a rururban community{{#if:|, {{{last}}}}. Popular Prakashan(1963)
• Anthropo-sociological papers{{#if:|, {{{last}}}}. Popular Prakashan(1963)
• Religious consciousness{{#if:|, {{{last}}}}. Popular Prakashan(1965)
• Social tensions in India{{#if:|, {{{last}}}}. Popular Prakashan(1968)
• I and other explorations{{#if:|, {{{last}}}}. Popular Prakashan(1973)
• Whither India?{{#if:|, {{{last}}}}. Popular Prakashan(1974)
• Aspects of changing India: studies in honour of Prof. G. S. Ghurye{{#if:|, {{{last}}}}. Popular Prakashan(1976)
• Indian acculturation: Agastya and Skanda{{#if:|, {{{last}}}}. Popular Prakashan(1977)
• India recreates democracy{{#if:|, {{{last}}}}. Popular Prakashan(1978). ISBN 9780842616072
• Legacy of the Ramayana{{#if:|, {{{last}}}}. South Asia Books(December 1979). ISBN 978-0-8364-5760-5
• Vedic India{{#if:|, {{{last}}}}. Popular Prakashan(1979)
• The scheduled tribes of India{{#if:|, {{{last}}}}. Transaction Publishers(1 January 1980). ISBN 978-0-87855-692-2
• The burning caldron of north-east India{{#if:|, {{{last}}}}. Popular Prakashan(1980)
• Rajput Architecture{{#if:|, {{{last}}}}. Popular Prakashan(1 January 2005). ISBN 978-81-7154-446-2

References

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Citations

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• The legacy of G.S. Ghurye: a centennial festschrift{{#if:|, {{{last}}}}. Popular Prakashan(1996). ISBN 978-81-7154-831-6
• Indian sociology through Ghurye, a dictionary{{#if:Pillai|, Pillai}. Popular Prakashan(1997). ISBN 978-81-7154-807-1
• Studies in Honour of Prof. G.S. Ghurye{{#if:Pillai|, Pillai}. Popular Prakashan(1976). ISBN 978-81-7154-157-7
• The cloister's pale: a biography of the University of Mumbai{{#if:|, {{{last}}}}. By Popular Prakashan for The University of Mumbai(2006). ISBN 978-81-7991-293-5
• Department of Sociology:About the department, University of Mumbai.

Further reading

• The 'Bombay School' and Urban Sociology in India. Sociological Bulletin({Template:Date).
• Readings in Indian Sociology: Volume X: Pioneers of Sociology in India{{#if:Venugopal|, Venugopal}. SAGE Publishing(2013). ISBN 978-8-13211-844-2

External links

• Professor G.S. Ghurye (1893–1983)
• Malvancity: Dr. G S Ghurye