Introduction
PART ONE
The Rural-Urban Continuum Re-examined in the Indian Context
Charisma, Social Structure and Social Change
Community Power Structure in Rural India
The Theory of Voluntary Associations in a Cross-Cultural Perspective
Student Power in India
A Sociological Analysis
PART TWO
Agrarian Classes and Political Mobilization
Political Alienation and the Internal Threats to the Indian Polity
Movements and Institutions
Structural Opposition or Processual Linkages?
Erving Goffman and the Study of Everyday Protest
Religion and Development in Hindu Society
Western Vision and Eastern Survival
Towards a Futuristic Agenda
State, Nation and Ethnie
The Processual Linkages
