Professor Arvind M. Shah retired from his professorship in the Department of Sociology at the

University of Delhi Delhi University (DU), formally the University of Delhi, is a collegiate university, collegiate Central university (India), central university located in New Delhi, India. It was founded in 1922 by an Act of the Central Legislative Assembly and ...

in 1996. He had been a student of

M. N. Srinivas Mysore Narasimhachar Srinivas (1916–1999) was an Indian sociologist and social anthropologist. He is mostly known for his work on caste and caste systems, social stratification, Sanskritisation and Westernisation in southern India and th ...

in 1952 and became a teacher in sociology at Maharaja Sayajirao University,

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, in 1958. He moved to the University of Delhi in 1961. According to

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, Shah wrote the first paper on the sociological history of India. He was a recipient of the Lifetime Achievement award from the Indian Sociological Society (ISS) in 2009. He had held the office of ISS President in 1992-93 and had been secretary, sometimes jointly, from 1967 to 1972.

Publications

Among Shah's publications, his ''The Household Dimension of the Family in India'' (1973) is regarded as a landmark study and in 2014 was re-issued in a single volume titled '' The Writings of A. M. Shah: The Household and Family in India'', which included some of his later writings on the subject - ''The Family in India: Critical Essays'' (1998) and ''Essays on the Family and the Elderly''.

Awards and honours

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in Shah's honour was published in 2010, entitled ''Understanding Indian Society: Past and Present (Essays for A M Shah)''.

References

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