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Akshaykumar Ramanlal Desai
Akshaykumar Ramanlal Desai(1915-1994) was an Indian Marxist Sociologist. Muscovim (talk) 11:10, 20 May 2018 (UTC)User Muscovim Muscovim (talk) 11:10, 20 May 2018 (UTC) His father Ramanlal Desai | was a well known writer and wife Neera Desai|was a leading figure in the field of women's studies and a  women's activist.Muscovim (talk) 10:26, 18 May 2018 (UTC)UserMuscovimMuscovim (talk) 10:26, 18 May 2018 (UTC)His studies evolve round nationalism and social configuratiin, state and society in India , relationship between social structure and polity, urban and demographic problems , peasant movements based upon Marxist method. Process of social transformation is being blocked due to links with capitalists, bourgeoisie state structure, all pulled out from social roots. Indian Thinkers, Sociology guide  {{Infobox|birthdate=26 April 1915|died =1994

Early life
His socialization progressed in an enlightened family structure.He took part in student movements in Surat Baroda. A.R.Desai was born on April 16 1915 at Nadiad| Gujrat state in a Nagar Brahmin Family Muscovim (talk) 04:16, 20 May 2018 (UTC)User Muscovim Western India.He graduated in Political Science and Economics from University of Bombay|.He also  obtained a law degree and did Phd in Sociology underG.S.Ghurye|in 1946 from the same university.

Career
Taught at Bombay University and also became Head of the Department Remembering ARDesai He became member of thesocialist party| but owing to some disputesMuscovim (talk) 10:15, 18 May 2018 (UTC)user MuscovimMuscovim (talk) 10:15, 18 May 2018 (UTC) left the party in 1939. He joined the Department of Sociology in University of Bombay|and became its Head in 1967.Muscovim (talk) 11:45, 18 May 2018 (UTC)UserMuscovimMuscovim (talk) 11:45, 18 May 2018 (UTC) In 1953 he joined another Party  The Trotskyist Revolutionary Party. He was influenced by thoughts of Karl Marx and Leon Trotsky.he was also influenced by C.G Shah|-one of the most learned Marxist of the 30's and 40's.  His most important contributions were   social Background of Indian Nationalism and a compendium  Rural Sociology in IndiaMuscovim (talk) 10:12, 22 May 2018 (UTC)Muscovim (talk) 10:13, 22 May 2018 (UTC)UserMuscovimMuscovim (talk) 10:13, 22 May 2018 (UTC)Muscovim (talk) 10:12, 22 May 2018 (UTC) For some days he also worked as a practicing lawyerARDesai- Biography and contribution to Indian Sociology Muscovim (talk) 10:32, 18 May 2018 (UTC)User MuscovimMuscovim (talk) 10:32, 18 May 2018 (UTC). ARDesai began his academic career as a lecturer in Siddharth College in Bombay in 1946 and officially joined the Department of Sociology at Bombay University as a lecturer in 1951. He became professor and Head of the Department in 1969 and retired from the University in 1976. Desai was appointed as a Senior fellow and National Fellow of the Indian Council of Social Science Research New Delhi, from 1973 to 1975 and from 1981-1985 respectively.

Influences
two sets of influences worked on him which helped to shape the perspective that he had adopted on the nation and nationalism in India.The first set related to his involvement with radical groups among student movements in Baroda as an undergraduate student and later with other leftist and Marxist groups participating in the nationalist movements. The second set was due to the influence of his father Ramanlal Desai - a civil servant, novelist, and committed nationalist The first set of influences was instrumental in training Desai to theorize the issues of nation and class and committed him to a revolutionary intervention in society and to using historical materialist methods to examine nationalism while the influence of the second set was significant in leading him ti its reiteration nationalism  as the only ideology that could confront colonialism. In his book Social background of Indian nationalism Desai combined both the perspectives.

Methodology
He consistently applied dialectical Historical Marxist methodologyMuscovim (talk) 10:23, 18 May 2018 (UTC)User MuscovimMuscovim (talk) 10:23, 18 May 2018 (UTC) to Indian Sociology with an empirical approach, He applied  Marxist methods in his treatment of Indian social structure and processes.Muscovim (talk) 09:22, 20 May 2018 (UTC)userMuscovimMuscovim (talk) 09:22, 20 May 2018 (UTC) he is regarded as the pioneers of introducing the modern Marxist approach to the empirical investigations involvingbibliographic and field research|. He was a doctrinaire MarxistMuscovim (talk) 10:15, 22 May 2018 (UTC)User MuscovimMuscovim (talk) 10:15, 22 May 2018 (UTC) and rejected any interpretation of tradition based on religion, rituals and festivals which according to him was essentially a secular phenomenon.Muscovim (talk) 10:22, 18 May 2018 (UTC)User MuscovimMuscovim (talk) 10:22, 18 May 2018 (UTC). He is regarded as the pioneer of using the modern Marxist approach in Indian Sociology

Notable works

 * Labor Movement in India 1928- 1930 ISBN 9788173070877
 * Rural Sociology in India-1969 (Popular Prakashan) ISBN 8171541542
 * Social Background of Indian Nationalism- 1948ISBN 9386042258
 * Slums and Urbanization of India- 1972ISBN 086132224XISBN 978-0861322244
 * State and Society in India- 1975
 * Peasant struggle in India - 1979
 * Rural India in Transition- 1979
 * India's path of Development- 1984
 * Immanent features of Indian Nationalism- 1975
 * Violations of Democratic Rights in India in two volumes (1986)ISBN 0861321308
 * Implications of modernization of Indian Society in the world context. - 1971
 * Rural sociology in India - ISBN 8171541542
 * Agrarian Struggles in India After Independence(1986 Oxford University Press)ISBN 0195616812ISBN 978-0195616811

Journal articles

 * ARDesai journal articles
 * Relevance of the Marxist Approach to Indian Society Sociological Bulletin

Felicitation volumes/ articles
capitalist Development, critical Essays - felicitation volume in honour of ARDesai - Ghanasyam Shah and Akashaykumar Ramanlal Desai.

work
He documented the history of working class in IndiaMuscovim (talk) 10:58, 22 May 2018 (UTC)User MuscovimMuscovim (talk) 10:58, 22 May 2018 (UTC) Being judged in time perspective in Indian Sociology A R Sailed through a particular period of time and elucidated Indian Sociological reality by class structure ,Muscovim (talk) 11:54, 5 June 2018 (UTC)user Muscovim Muscovim (talk) 11:54, 5 June 2018 (UTC) barring caste. This is a unique approach He tried to trace the history of Indian nationalism.

view on social movements
He considered that the emerging contradictions in the Indian Process of Social Transformation arise from the growing nexus of capitalist bourgeoisie, rural petty bourgeoisie and a state apperatus ,all drawn from similar social roots ,which thwarts the aspirations of rural and industrial working classes by its sheer power and skillful stratagems.The contradiction if not resolved re-emerges in the form of protests and social movements. The social unrest is rooted in the capitalist path of development followed by India, bequeathed to it as a legacy of the national movement.

Award
Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru Award for social science by Government of Madhya Pradesh(1987)

Positions held

 * President - Indian Sociological Society 1980-81
 * Senior fellow ICSSR-1985
 * President-15 th All India Sociological Conference Meerut (UP)