Society and culture in India

This remarkable work is a product of sustained collaboration between a Sanskrit scholar sociologist for three decades more. Through meticulous analysis Sanskrit texts, it lays bare the forces and processes which have shaped the basic elements of social structure and culture in India.
It thus provides a new and deeper understanding the processes social change, social stratifications, family, status of woman, religion, the doctrine Karma, the Sanskaras, the Asramas, and cultural interaction among ancient civilizations. The analysis is truly sociological. It brings latent function pervasive beliefs practices; in the domain sociology knowledge even metaphysical theories related factors of social existence.

Works Indian society far, tend to paraphrase piece together material drawn from texts composed in widely diverse historical eras. The picture that emerges from such exercise is therefore, fictitious. It represent no real socio-cultural system. On other hand, the present work an endeav our understand the dynamics of various aspects social system relating the content a text to the socio-cultural era in which it was composed. This work is intended neither to glorify nor to detract, but to give an objective and verifiable account.