The 1969 Split and the Sociology of Organizational Rupture
Why movements fracture along ideological lines — and what the Irish republican schism of 1969–70 tells us about the relationship between doctrine and organizational survival.
Critical Writings on Society, Power & History
Four decades after their peak insurgency, the Maoist movement in India has entered a terminal phase — not through military defeat alone, but through a deeper crisis of political imagination, organizational form, and the erosion of their social base in a transforming countryside.
Why movements fracture along ideological lines — and what the Irish republican schism of 1969–70 tells us about the relationship between doctrine and organizational survival.
The promise and peril of anti-caste coalitions with communist parties — a relational sociology of a fraught but indispensable political formation.
How administrative procedures become instruments of differentiated belonging — reading the Special Intensive Revision process through Oommen's framework of stratified citizenship.
When the institutions built to prevent atrocity become instruments of its legitimation — a sociological reading of the collapse of the humanitarian order.
Mapping a century of theoretical development — from substance ontology to relational sociology, and what this shift means for how we study movements, institutions, and power.
A new monograph challenges culturalist readings of caste and insists on its structural, institutional dimensions — with implications for both theory and political strategy.
How classical sociology's ambivalence about power — its simultaneous fascination and discomfort — shaped the discipline's capacity to theorise domination and resistance. And why recovering this tension is essential for a sociology adequate to our moment.
"The state is not a thing, a subject, or a functional system — it is a relation of relations, reproduced through the practices of those who constitute it."
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Reading Annihilation of Caste not as a political pamphlet but as a sociological argument — about the reproduction of hierarchy, the inadequacy of reform, and the conditions of genuine social transformation. What does it mean to take Ambedkar seriously as a theorist?
How the academy responds to affirmative action tells us more about the sociology of knowledge than any curriculum change.
Ethnographic approaches to practices of honour reveal how caste, gender, and kinship are reproduced through everyday rituals of recognition and exclusion.
Sociograph publishes sociological commentary, historical analysis, and political essays on the urgent questions of our time — from the dynamics of caste and state power in South Asia to the structures of global inequality and the sociology of political movements. It is grounded in a commitment to rigorous analysis and public engagement.
PhD candidate in Sociology at the Centre for the Study of Social Systems, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Research focuses on relational sociology, anti-caste politics, and organizational dynamics. Work has appeared in Frontline, Economic & Political Weekly, and other publications.