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.netSeva, sangathanas and gurus: service and the making of the Hindu nation in Gurpreet Mahajan and Surinder Jodhka Religion, Community and Development, Delhi, Routledge2010Introduction. Diversities of Sociological Traditions in Sujata Patel, The ISA Handbook of Diverse Sociological Traditions, Sage London, 2010At 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 2009Doing Urban Studies in India. The Challenges. Special issue on Indian Sociology, South African Review of Sociology, 40 2009The Ethnography of the Labouring Poor in India Introduction, The Jan Breman Omnibus, Delhi, Oxford University Press, 2007Towards 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, 2007Sociological Study of Religion, Colonial Modernity, and Nineteenth Century Majoritarianism. Economic and Political Weekly, 42, 1089–1094. 2007Mumbai. 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, 2007Empowerment, Co-option, and Domination: The Politics of Employment Guarantee Scheme of Maharashtra in Economic and Political Weekly, 41 5126–5133, 2006Urban 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, 2006Beyond Binaries. Towards Self Reflexive Sociologies, Current Sociology, 54, 381–395, 2006Challenges to Sociological Practices in India Today, International Sociological Association E Bulletin, Spring March 2006Regional Politics, City Conflicts and Communal Riots: Ahmedabad 1985–86 in Rajendra Vora and Anne Feldhouse Region and Regionalism, New Delhi Manohar, 353–376, 2006