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96 UNDERSTANDING SOCIETY Mysore Narasimhachar Srinivas (1916-1999) M.N. Srinivas was born on 16 November 1916 in an Iyengar brahmin family in Mysore. His father was a landowner and worked for the Mysore power and light department. His early education was at Mysore University, and he later went to Bombay to do an MA under G.S. Ghurye. 1942: M.A. thesis on Marriage and Family Among the Coorgs published as book. 1944: Ph.D. thesis (in 2 volumes) submitted to Bombay University under the supervision of G.S. Ghurye. 1945: Leaves for Oxford; studies first under Radcliffe- Brown and then under Evans-Pritchard. 1947: Awarded D.Phil. degree in Social Anthropology from Oxford; returns to India. 1948: Appointed Lecturer in Indian Sociology at Oxford; fieldwork in Rampura. 1951: Resigns from Oxford to take up Professorship at Maharaja Sayaji Rao University in Baroda to found its sociology department. 1959: Takes up Professorship at the Delhi School of Economics to set up the sociology department there. 1971: Leaves Delhi University to co-found the Institute of Social and Economic Change at Bangalore. Died on 30 November 1999. little time for his own research. Despiteniversity of Chicago, which was then these difficulties, Srinivas produced a a powerful centre in world significant body of work on themes anthropology. Like G.S. Ghurye and such as caste,modernisation and other the Lucknow scholars, Srinivas processes of social change, village succeeded in training a new generation society, and many other issues. of sociologists who were to become Srinivas helped to establish Indian leaders of the discipline in the following sociology on the world map through decades. his international contacts and associations. He had strong M.N. Srinivas on the Village connections in British social The Indian village and village society anthropology as well as American remained a life-long focus of interest anthropology, particularly at the for Srinivas. Although he had made Reprint 2026-27