Sujata Patel
Sujata Patel is an Indian sociologist, currently holding the position of National Fellow at the Indian Institute of Advanced Study.
Authored and edited books
- The ISA Handbook of Diverse Sociological Traditions
- Urban Studies. Readers in Sociology and Social Anthropology
- Bombay and Mumbai. The City in Transition
- Thinking Social Science in India. Essays in Honour of Alice Thorner.
- Bombay Metaphor for Modern India
- Bombay Mosaic of Modern Culture
- ''Making of Industrial Relations. Ahmedabad Textile Industry 1918–1939''
Selected journal articles and book chapters
- Sociology’s ‘Other’. The Debate on European Universals in The Encyclopaedia of Life Support Systems, UNESCO, 2010.www.eolss.net
- Seva, sangathanas and gurus: service and the making of the Hindu nation in Gurpreet Mahajan and Surinder Jodhka Religion, Community and Development, Delhi, Routledge2010
- Introduction. Diversities of Sociological Traditions in Sujata Patel, The ISA Handbook of Diverse Sociological Traditions, Sage London, 2010
- At crossroads. Sociology in India in Sujata Patel, The ISA Handbook of Diverse Sociological Traditions, Sage, London, 2010
- , Interview with Pooja Adhikary, ISA E Bulletin, Number 14, November 2009
- Doing Urban Studies in India. The Challenges. Special issue on Indian Sociology, South African Review of Sociology, 40 2009
- The Ethnography of the Labouring Poor in India Introduction, The Jan Breman Omnibus, Delhi, Oxford University Press, 2007
- Towards a praxiological understanding of Indian Society The Sociology of A.R. Desai in Satish Deshpande, Nandini Sundar and Patricia Uberoi Anthropology of the East: The Indian Foundations of a Global Discipline, New Delhi, Permanent Black, 2007
- Sociological Study of Religion, Colonial Modernity, and Nineteenth Century Majoritarianism. Economic and Political Weekly, 42, 1089–1094. 2007
- Mumbai. The Mega-City of a Poor Country in Klaus Segbers The Making of Global City Regions: Johannesburg, Mumbai/Bombay, São Paulo, and Shanghai, Baltimore, Johns Hopkins Press, 2007
- Empowerment, Co-option, and Domination: The Politics of Employment Guarantee Scheme of Maharashtra in Economic and Political Weekly, 41 5126–5133, 2006
- Urban Studies: An Exploration in Theory and Practices in Sujata Patel and Kushal Deb Urban Studies, Reader in Sociology and Social Anthropology Delhi, Oxford University Press, 2006
- Beyond Binaries. Towards Self Reflexive Sociologies, Current Sociology, 54, 381–395, 2006
- Challenges to Sociological Practices in India Today, International Sociological Association E Bulletin, Spring March 2006
- Regional Politics, City Conflicts and Communal Riots: Ahmedabad 1985–86 in Rajendra Vora and Anne Feldhouse Region and Regionalism, New Delhi Manohar, 353–376, 2006