J. P. S. Uberoi (Jit Pal Singh Uberoi / JPS Uberoi; born 1934) is an Indian sociologist and philosophical anthropologist. He retired as a professor of

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from the

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, New Delhi, India. He is best known for establishing an alternative paradigm in the Indian social sciences, which inaugurates the space for a non-western reading of the West and paves the way for a history and anthropology of science and European modernity. In 2011, the Indian Sociological Society honored him with the Lifetime Achievement Award.

Education and research

Uberoi was educated at the

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as an engineer in the 1950s. He later studied anthropology for his masters at the

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. At Manchester, he studied under the anthropologist

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. His graduate work at Manchester culminated in the publication of his first book, ''Politics of the Kula Ring: An Analysis of the Findings of Bronislaw Malinowski'' (Manchester University Press), in 1962. He completed his Ph.D. in 1964 in the Department of Anthropology at the

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. He conducted ethnographic research among the Tajiks of Afghanistan, and subsequently wrote and defended a Ph.D. thesis entitled ''Social Organisation of the Tajiks of Andarab Valley, Afghanistan''. He came back to India in the late 1960s, and started a decades-long career of teaching and research at the

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Books

* ''Politics of the Kula Ring: An Analysis of the Findings of Bronislaw Malinowski'' (1962, Manchester University Press) * ''Science and Culture'' (1978, Oxford University Press) * ''The other mind of Europe: Goethe as a Scientist'' (1984, Oxford University Press) * ''Religion, civil society, and the state: a study of Sikhism'' (1996, Oxford University Press) * ''The European Modernity: Science, Truth, and Method'' (2002, Oxford University Press)

References

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Education and research

Books

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