Public Sociology at its best: A review of Nandini Sundar’s The Burning Forest: India’s War in Bastar (Juggernaut Publication, 2016).

This piece reviews a recent book, The Burning Forest, addressing one of the most urgent tasks sociologists have today: of deconstructing the architecture and functioning of democratic states. It also discusses the many dilemmas in public sociology. The author is a prominent Indian public sociologist...

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Main Author: Juhi Tyagi
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Language:English
Published: Kennesaw State University 2017-08-01
Series:Journal of Public and Professional Sociology
Online Access:https://digitalcommons.kennesaw.edu/jpps/vol9/iss2/4/
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