Indigenizing Sociology in India: A Need of the Hour (original) (raw)

The ideas presented in this paper are the outcome of my presentation in a National Conference organized in Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar Central University, Lucknow, 3-4 November 2023. The workshop was organized on New Education Policy. Reading of Radhakamal Mukerjee and the hiatus I have always felt between my life experiences as Hindu and what I learnt about Hinduism from schools/colleges and media paved the way for pondering on development of endogenous sociology in India, free from open and hidden external biases against Indian values and culture. In this paper, first, I attempt to say a few words about Mukerjee, then I come to problems that Orientalism, supported by Western centre of thought and alien religions in India, has caused in India, and suggest what can lead to resolution of the present crisis emerging from racialization of castes and religions. I argue that there is a need to write Indian sociology in the framework of Vedic universal values which are reflected in various forms in spiritual, religious, and literary works in different languages in India.