Indian Studies in Soviet Social Studies
https://doi.org/10.23932/2542-0240-2021-14-6-6
Abstract
The article is focused on the evolution of Soviet Indian studies in the course of the 1970s and 1980s, i.e. the period of the discipline’s indisputable academic upsurge. The present author maintains that factors instrumental of Indian studies’ ascendant development were many; among the latter foreign policy imperatives as well as high quality intellectual talent available are distinguished to explain the advancement of this area of social science research to the status of socially significant professional activities. Socio-economic, history and political studies are taken to demonstrate the academic accomplishments of Soviet scholars who exploited their own “wisdom” to comprehend India’s complex social reality and, also, utilized critical assessment of the existent social science research paradigms circulating in Indian scholarship. The “crisis” of Indian studies dating back to the late 1980s is discussed in basic aspects. The social and political origins of the “crisis” are being highlighted. The evolution of Soviet Indian studies during the late 1980s is investigated at the backdrop of sociopolitical development in the years preceding the USSR’s dismemberment. Tentative factors instrumental of the eventual “comeback” of Indian studies as an academic discipline of high societal stature are estimated.
Keywords
Indian studies,
social sciences in the USSR,
science and societal modernization,
Institute for Asian and African studies (Moscow State University),
Institute of Oriental studies (USSR Academy of Sciences),
Indian studies before the October revolution,
Soviet-Indian relations,
India’s political economy,
political democracy in India
About the Author
A. G. Volodin
Primakov National Research Institute of World Economy and International Relations of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Andrey G. Volodin – DSc in History, Chief Researcher
117997, Profsoyuznaya St., 23, Moscow
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Volodin A.G. Indian Studies in Soviet Social Studies. Outlines of global transformations: politics, economics, law. 2021;14(6):117-138. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.23932/2542-0240-2021-14-6-6
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