UNDERSTANDING SOCIOLOGY

  IMPACT OF ISLAM ON INDIAN SOCIETY AND ISLAMIZATION   The contact of India with Islam is almost a millennium   old. It started with Arab conquest of the Sind in the beginning of the 8 th century. Thus historically as well as in magnitude, Islam is an important and sociologically very meaningful cultural tradition in India. Both Hinduism and Islam represent two varieties of traditional world views. The pattern of cultural syncretism between Hinduism and Islam on the one hand and the process of the spread of Islam which may be called Islamization on the other are significant social movements which have a bearing on the contemporary dynamics of culture in India.     The Great and Little traditions of Islam have made cultural changes in India. These changes might either be in the form of new syncretic patterns emerging through interaction with the indigenous Indian traditions or they might be in the form of endogenous changes in the very tradition of Islam...

  ISHWAR LAL PRAGJI DESAI   ü        I.P. Desai is one of the second generation of sociologist in India. ü        He played a pioneering role in shaping the teaching and research in the discipline. ü        He was not only an academician but also an activist. ü        He was influenced by Marx. ü        He acknowledged himself as political activist.  BIBOGRAPHY ü   Born on 31 st July 1911 at village Parujan, Taluka Navsari, Surat district Gujarat. ü   He completed his primary education in village Parujan while secondary education in Surat. ü   He belongs to the Anavil caste-belonging to the Brahmin community. ü   His education was influenced by the political and social conditions of that time as he acknowledges himself as political and social worker. ü   When he was in Surat he stayed in Anavil hostel basically for male members of t...