Preface and Acknowledgements
In 2006, the organisers of the Frankfurt Book Fair invited India to be the guest of honour, which occasioned the launching of several projects. As a part of the guest of honour presentation project, the National Book Trust (NBT) sponsored three Indo-German seminars, one of which was in sociology. Professor Bipin Chandra, Chairman, NBT, requested me to organise the sociology seminar in Germany with the collaboration of a German academic institution. The theme selected for the seminar was ‘Classes, Citizenship and Inequality’. This book is the product of that project.
Professor Hermann Schwengel of the University of Freiburg readily agreed to be the German host for the event. A three-day workshop at Munich, from September ...
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