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Ramkrishna Mukherjee
Ramkrishna Mukherjee(14November1917-15 November 2015) was Distinguished Scientist at the Indian Statistical Institute|Calcutta|and Adjunct Professor|ofSociology|atBinghamton University| From 1973 to 1975 he was President of the Indian Sociological Society|and received their Lifetime Achievement Award in 2005. HIS most important work was dYNAMICS OF A RURALSOCIETY Practising Sociology through History

Early Life and Education
Mukherjee was born in Calcutta(Kolkata)with a middle class background. His father Satindra Nath was an Engineer.He passed his matriculation in Ripon Collegiste school in 1935.Mukherjeee first went to live in villages at the age of 21. Ramkrishna got married to Prabhati Mukherjee, an academic, who died in 2008.

Having passed his matriculation in 1935 from Ripon collegiate schoolhe first went to live in villages at the age of 21 obtained Msc degree from University of Calcutta and Phd  Cambridge University from University of Calcutta|in 1941  Cambridge University| in 1948. Initially starting as a geneticist he turned to Statistics and took lessons in statistics from Prof Mahalnobis.

Career
He was the Chief Research Officer to His Majesty's Social SurveyLondon|in 1948 and 1949.from 1949 to 1952he was consultant to Government of Turkey|  and to London School of Economics|.Between 1953 and 1957 he was Guest Professor at the Institute of Indian studies at Humboldt University| inBerlin.Until 1979 he was associated as research professor with Indian Statistical Institute.He also worked as adviser to social science journals and institutions both in India and abroad. His contributions covered subjects like family,caste and class, agrarian relations,nationalism,inductive method ,National Sample Survey design,urbanization and social change and colonial exploitation however one cannot easily encompass the sweep of his interests.He had a Marxist and historical perspective according to which structures were a result of a process and were in themselves part of an ongoing process. .he founded the Sociological Research Unit (SRU) at the Indian Statistical Institute at the behest of Prof Mahalnobis.Indian Statistical Institute He also established the All India Sociological Conference. his most notable work was Dynamics of Rural Society and his main contribution was his Dialectical Approach towards studying Indian society. which was also used by Indian Sociolologists like ARDesai |

Work
He wrote more than a dozon books and over a hundred papers in internationally reputed journals.He emphasized the importance of a dialectic model for the study of Indian Society. he combined Marx's Dialectical logic with the study of Indian Society Modernity essay an useful Essay on Modernity in India - Supriya  Guru

With his work the theme of agrarian social structure and change was to reappear in Indian Sociology after a gap of two decadesin the late 1960's and 70's.

Awards and Honors

 * Member, ICSSR(Indian Council of Social Science Research)
 * Executive Member-(International Sociological Association(ISA)(1974-78)
 * National Lecturer (1977)
 * Asiatic Society Gold Medal for Anthropology(1981)
 * University Grants Commission, New Delhi(1985)Swami Pranavanand Awards for Sociology
 * Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru Award for Social Sciences by Government of Madhya Pradesh (1986)
 * Distinguished Scientist at ISI

Publications
Following are his widely recognized publicationsBooks by Ramkrishna Mukherjee

Books

 *  Ancient Inhabitants of Jabel Moya Sudan (Cambridge University Press 1955) ISBN 0521134749
 *  Sociologists and Social Change in India(Prentice Hall New Delhi 1965)
 * Six villages of Bengal (Bombay-Popular Prakashan 1971)
 * The Dynamics of Rural Society-A Study of the Economic Structure of Bengal villages (Akademic Verlag 1957)ISBN 8171552153
 * The Rise and Fall of East India Company- A Sociological Appraisal (Monthly Review Press, New York,1974)ISBN 0853453152
 * Social Indicators (Delhi Macmilan Company of India ,1975)ISBN 0333900901
 * Family and Planning in India (Bombay- Orient Longman,1976)
 * West Bengal Family Structures -an example of the viability of the Joint Family(South Asia Book, 1977,ISBN 978-0333901311
 * ''What will it be- Explorations in Inductive Sociology(Carolina Academic Press, 1978)
 * Sociology of Indian Sociology(Bombay Allied ,1979)
 * ''Classification of Social Research(state University New York 1984)ISBN 0-87395-607-9
 * ''Uganda ,an historical accident ?Class ,Nation, State formation (Africa Research and Publications 1985)ISBN 0865430160
 * The quality of life-valuation in social research(Sage Publications 1989) ISBN 0803995873
 * ''Society, culture,development(Sage publications 1991)ISBN 0803991029
 * ''Systemic Sociology(Sage Publication 1993)ISBN 8170363527
 * ''The Measure of Time in the Appraisal of Social Reality(Cambridge Scholars Publishing 2009)ISBN 9781443805766
 * Why Unitary Social Science(Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009)ISBN 1443802123
 * Ramkrishna Mukherjee- ParthNath Mukherjee-Methodology of Social Research -dilemmas and perspectives-Essays in honor of Ramkrishna Mukherjee- (2000 Sage Publications)ISBN 9780761994404
 * Globalization,trends and perspectives- Essays in honor of Ramkrishna Mukherjee - Ramkrishna Mukherjee - Samit KarKolkata (Directed Initiative 2002)
 * Sociology in the Rubric Social Science - Professor Ramkrishna Mukherjee Felicitation Volume S.Bhattacharya Ashok Ghosh ISBN 8185579334
 * Sociology of Indian Sociology
 * Sociology of Indian Sociology

Articles

 *  A Sample Survey of After effects of Bengal Famine of 1943]Sankhya(1946)Mukherjee Mahalnobis Ghosh
 * 1981 Realities of Agrarian Relations in IndiaEconomic and Political Weekly (1981)
 * 1972 Social Background of BangladeshEconomic and Political Weekly (1972)
 * 1999 Caste in itself, caste and class,or caste in classEconomic and Political Weekly(1999)
 * 1986 I P Desai and Sociology of IndiaEconomic and political Weekly(1986)
 * 1991 Social and Cultural Components of Society and Appraisal of Social Reality Economic and Political Weekly
 * 1979 a Sociology of India''Contributions to Indian Sociology
 * 1969 Social Research in Contemporary India''Social Science Information
 * 1998 Reality and Culture'' Current Sociology
 * 1962 and Social Change in India Today''Sociological Bulletin
 * 1968 observations on the diachronic and synchronic aspects of Social Change''Social Science Information
 * 1981 the use of social indicators for planning''Social Indicators Research
 * 1979 in Indian Sociology''Contributions to Indian Sociology
 * 1997 and Paradoxes of Inductive Social Science-A Critique of Ramkrishna Mukherjee- Pradip Kumar BoseSociological Bulletin
 * 1974 The sociologist and social reality -Sociological Bulletin Vol 23 No2
 * Formation and fragmentation of Nation States partition of India an example
 * Formation and fragmentation of Nation States partition of India an example

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