Arvinder Ansari

Few sociologists in contemporary India have engaged with the complexities of plural societies as consistently and thoughtfully as Prof. Tharailath Koshy Oommen (T.K. Oommen). Over several decades of scholarship, his work explored the intricate relationship between diversity, identity, citizenship, and democratic coexistence. At a time when questions of ethnicity, minority rights and national belonging continue to shape political debates across the world...

The evolution of Indian sociology has been deeply influenced by the intellectual legacies of colonialism, nationalism, and modernity. These historical processes favored certain ways of creating knowledge, which often aligned with patriarchal, Brahmanical, and Eurocentric views. Additionally, these historical processes frequently excluded alternative modes of knowledge and marginalized subaltern perspectives. Within these dominant structures, women were predominantly...