Shyama charan dube biography for kids
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Leela Dube facts for kids
Quick facts for kids Leela Dube | |
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Leela Dube – October 2006 | |
| Born | (1923-03-27)27 March 1923 |
| Died | 20 May 2012(2012-05-20) (aged 89) Delhi |
Leela Dube (27 March 1923 – 20 May 2012) was a renowned anthropologist and feminist scholar, fondly called Leeladee by many. She was the widow of anthropologist and sociologist Shyama Charan Dube and a younger sister of the late classical singer Sumati Mutatkar. She is survived bygd two sons, Mukul Dube and Saurabh Dube. Known for her work on kinship and in women's studies, she wrote several books including Matriliny and Islam: religion and society in the Laccadives and Women and kinship: comparative perspectives on gender in South and South‑east Asia.
Career
Although she had taught earlier at Osmania, Dube's academic career really began in 1960 at Sagar University, Madhya Pradesh. She moved to Delhi in 1975. She played a crucial role in shaping the "Towards Equality" report of the Committee on t
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On the Concept of Community: A Tribute to Professor Shyama Charan Dube by Vinay Srivastava
Article Journal of the Anthropological On the Concept of Survey of India 69(1) 145–164, 2020 Community: A Tribute © 2020 Anthropological Survey of India Reprints and permissions: to Professor Shyama in.sagepub.com/journals-permissions-india DOI: 10.1177/2277436X20927224 Charan Dube (25 July journals.sagepub.com/home/ans 1922–4 February 1996) Vinay Kumar Srivastava1 Abstract About social structure, A. L. Kroeber said that it is a ‘pleasant puzzle’, because there are several opinions on its constitution. In a similar vein, R. K. Merton said that social structure is polyphyletic and polymorphous, i.e. it has many meanings and ideas. The same is true of the concept of community. We use many concepts that we understand, but when it comes to defining them in precise terms, we start facing problems, and the concept of community is one of them. This paper submits that community is one concept that is
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REMEMBERING MY MENTOR Professor Shyama Charan Dube (S.C. Dube)
Updated: Jun 29, 2023
Contributed By:
Prof. R. K. Mutatkar
Former Founder Head, Deptt. of Anthropology
Director, Inter-disciplinary School of Health Sciences
Savitribai Phule Pune University
Maharashtra
Email: rkmutatkar@gmail.com
My tryst with Anthropology started in the year 1957. One may say, it was a ‘call of destiny’ that instead of doing post-graduation in Economics from Delhi School of Economics, Delhi University; inom landed at Sagar University to be mentored by the legendary social anthropologist/ Sociologist Prof. S.C. Dube. While I was completing graduation from Victoria College, Gwalior, my economics teacher Prof. A, K. Majumdar recommended my candidature for a post-graduation Programme in Economics to then Director of Delhi School of Economics, eminent Prof. B. N. Ganguly. As a young student, I was elated because post-graduation in Economics was available at Gwalior, bu