J. P. S. Uberoi

J. P. S. Uberoi
Uberoi in 2012
Born
Jitendra Pal Singh Uberoi

September 1934
Lahore, Punjab Province, British India
DiedJanuary 3, 2024 (aged 89)
Delhi, India
Alma materUniversity College London
University of Manchester
Australian National University
OccupationProfessor of Sociology at the Delhi School of Economics
Known for
  • sociology of religion
  • sociology of modernity
  • sociology of Afghanistan and West Asia
  • Sikh studies
  • philosophical anthropology
  • Goethe studies
  • structuralism
AwardsLifetime Achievement Award of the Indian Sociological Society (2011)

Jitendra Pal Singh Uberoi (September 1934 – 3 January 2024)[1] was an Indian sociologist and philosophical anthropologist. He was a Professor of Sociology from the Delhi School of Economics. Uberoi is credited with contributions toward establishing sociology as a discipline of study in post-colonial India and also non-western reading of the west, including the study of the history and anthropology of science and European modernity.[2][3]

  1. ^ Mehta, Deepak (2024). "JPS Uberoi (1934-2024): In Commemoration". Economic and Political Weekly. LIX (8).
  2. ^ 'Quest for a Lost Plural Unity', Philippe Tulkens, Economic and Political Weekly
  3. ^ Prasad, Amit (2016). "Discursive Contextures of Science:Euro/West-Centrism and Science and Technology Studies". Engaging Science, Technology, and Society. 2: 193–207. doi:10.17351/ests2016.71.