Chapter 4

I am grateful to Professor Yogesh Atal for his critical comments on the earlier drafts of the paper before it was presented at the ICSSR meeting of experts on 8 and 9 March 2007. My thanks are due to Dr Rowena Robinson, Professor Prasant Ray, Dr N.K. Das and others who participated in the discussion and gave suggestions. Dr Ranjit Sinha and Dr K.L. Khera and their team of dedicated workers at the ICSSR also deserve thanks for their cooperation and help.

1.The Institute of Social Sciences, Agra University, for example, introduced political sociology as an optional paper in 1965.

2. This study was part of a UNESCO-sponsored project, on Communication and Nation Building, directed by Yogesh Atal, then UNESCO Regional Adviser for Social ...

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