Mysuru: Mysuru Book Clubs – 2015 has organised a talk on “The Life and Times of M. N. Srinivas” by David Gellner, Professor of Social Anthropology at University of Oxford, tomorrow (Dec. 17) at 5.30 pm at Roopa Elite, No. D-29, 6th Main Road, V.V. Mohalla.

Profile: Mysore Narasimhachar Srinivas (M.N. Srinivas), a Social Anthropologist, was well-known for his body of work on caste systems and caste as a social institution. His connection with South India is seen in the extensive fieldwork he did in Coorg (Kodagu) and his study of the different castes in that hilly district. 

A product of the University of Bombay and University of Oxford, he is the author of Social Change in Modern India and Caste in Modern India. He received the prestigious Padma Bhushan award in 1977. 

Prof. David Gellner specialises in the study of religion, politics, ethnicity, caste and social change in Nepal and North India. Earlier, as Lecturer in Anthropology of South Asia in the University of Oxford, he walked in the footsteps of M.N. Srinivas, who was in that position in 1947. 

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