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    A.R Desai was a Marxist sociologist born in 1915 in Gujarat, India who died in 1994. He advocated for and applied a dialectical-historical model in his sociological studies, closely examining the works of Marx and Engels. He may be regarded as one of the pioneers introducing modern Marxist approaches to empirical investigations involving field research. In his work, he analyzed Indian society from a Marxist perspective, focusing on class relations and the political economy. He rejected non-Marxist approaches that were dominant in Indian social sciences in the 1950s-1960s, arguing that the Marxist framework was best suited to understand the realities of Indian social transformation and the role of the state.

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    A.R Desai was a Marxist sociologist born in 1915 in Gujarat, India who died in 1994. He advocated for and applied a dialectical-historical model in his sociological studies, closely examining the works of Marx and Engels. He may be regarded as one of the pioneers introducing modern Marxist approaches to empirical investigations involving field research. In his work, he analyzed Indian society from a Marxist perspective, focusing on class relations and the political economy. He rejected non-Marxist approaches that were dominant in Indian social sciences in the 1950s-1960s, arguing that the Marxist framework was best suited to understand the realities of Indian social transformation and the role of the state.

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    A.R Desai was a Marxist sociologist born in 1915 in Gujarat, India who died in 1994. He advocated for and applied a dialectical-historical model in his sociological studies, closely examining the works of Marx and Engels. He may be regarded as one of the pioneers introducing modern Marxist approaches to empirical investigations involving field research. In his work, he analyzed Indian society from a Marxist perspective, focusing on class relations and the political economy. He rejected non-Marxist approaches that were dominant in Indian social sciences in the 1950s-1960s, arguing that the Marxist framework was best suited to understand the realities of Indian social transformation and the role of the state.

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    R Desai

    A.R Desai was born on April 16, 1915 at Nadiad in Gujarat and died in 1994 at Baroda. He consistently advocated and
    applied dialectical-historical model in his sociological studies. He closely studied the works of Marx and Engels and the
    writings of Trotsky. He may be regarded as one of the pioneers in introducing the modern Marxist approach to
    empirical investigations involving bibliographical and field research. He rejects any interpretations of tradition with
    reference to religion, rituals and festivities. It is essentially a secular phenomenon. He finds it in family, village and
    other social institutions. He also does not find the origin of tradition in western culture. He considers that the emerging
    contradictions in the Indian process of social transformation arise mainly from the growing nexus among the capitalist
    bourgeoisie, the rural petty-bourgeoisie and a state apparatus all drawn from similar social roots.

    Main Writings Of A.R Desai


    A. R Desai has written in Marxist perspective to understand the diverse aspects of Indian social reality. The main

    works are:

     The social background of Indian nationalism

     Rural sociology in India

     Slums and urbanization in India

     State and society in India

     Peasant struggle in India

     Rural India in transition

     India’s path of development Desai also developed the field of political sociology in 1960s.He studied Indian society

    from Marxian perspective and also used history fruitfully.

    Marxist Approach
    In 50s-60s American structural-functionalism and British functionalism dominated social sciences in general and

    sociological researches in particular. However Desai continued to write on Indian society and state from the Marxist

    perspective. He finds that the dominant sociological approaches in India are basically non-Marxist and the Marxist

    approach has been rejected on the pretext of its being dogmatic, value-loaded and deterministic in nature. The

    relevant approach according to him is the Marxist approach as it could help to study of govt’s policies, the class

    entrenched into state apparatus and India’ s political economy. The Marxist approach helps to understand the social

    reality through the means of production, the techno-economic division of labour involved in operating the instruments

    of production and social relations of production or what was more precisely characterized as property relations. Thus

    the Marxist approach focuses on understanding the type of property relations which existed on the eve of

    independence in India. The Marxist approach gives central importance to property structure in analyzing any society.

    It provides historical location or specification of all social phenomena. It recognizes the dialectics of evolutionary as

    well as revolutionary changes of the breaks in historical continuity in the transition from one socio-economic formation

    to another. In this context A R Desai tried to understand the Indian society which also reflects in his work.

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