Prof. Partho Nath Mukherjee is a sociologist. He taught at the Patna University; the Centre for Advanced Studies, Department of Sociology, Delhi School of Economics, Delhi University; the centre for the Study of Social Systems, Jawaharlal University. He was invited to join the Indian Statistical Institute. Kolkata, as Professor in 1980 and subsequently moved over to its Planning Unit at New Delhi. In 1996 he became the Director-Vice Chancellor of the Tata Institute of Sciences, Mumbai, and moved over as Director, Council for
Social Development in New Delhi in 1999. He was a Senior Fellow at the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, New Delhi, before being invited to accept the S.K. Dey Chair Professorship at the Institute of Social Sciences, New Delhi in 1993, where he is located at present.
Books authored/edited by him include:
- Form Left Extremism to Electoral Politics (Manohar Publishers, 1983)
- Indian Sociology: Reflections and Introspections (Popular Prakashan, 1986)
- People's Rights: Social Movements and the State in the Third World (Sage, 1998)
- Sociology in South Asia: Heritage and Challenges (International Sociological Association, 1998)
- Methodology in Social Research (Sage 2000)
- Indigeneity and Universality in Social Science: A South Asian Response (Sage 2004).
His areas research interest includes: social movements (including Gandhian and Maoist movements, peasant movements), gender concerns, sociology of rural labour, sociology of deprived castes, international migration.
He is currently the President of the Indian Sociological Society (January 2004 - December 2005)
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