Contents: Preface Partha Nath Mukherji Introduction: Indigeneity and Universality in Social Science Immanuel Wallerstein Social Science and the Quest for a Just Society Syed Hussein Alatas The Captive Mind and Creative Development Yogesh Atal The Call for Indigenization Saman Kelegama and Chris Rodrigo Economic Theory and Development Practice Stiglitz's Critique and the Sri Lankan Experience S T Hettige Pseudo-Modernization and the Formation of Youth Bishwambher Pyakuryal Poverty in a Rural Economy Opportunities and Threats - A Case Study of Nepal Ajeet N Mathur Inquiring Minds and Inquiry Frames S Akbar Zaidi NGO Failure and the Need to Bring Back the State Lyonpo Jigmi Y Thinley Values and Development Gross National Happiness Stefan Priesner Gross National Happiness Bhutan's Vision of Development and Its Challenges Rangalal Sen Glimpses of Social Structure in Ancient Indian Kautilya's Relevance for Sociology in South Asia T K Oommen Institution-Building in South Asia Dilemmas and Experiences Satish Saberwal Traditions and Actors 'Communities' Reconfigured in 19th Century India Indra N Mukherji Globalization, Intellectual Property Rights and Indigenous Response Satish Kumar Kalra Consultative Managerial Leadership Style in India A Viable Alternative Jacob Aikara The Indigenous and the Modern Education in South Asia Chandan Sengupta Urban Sociology of South Asia The Problem of Formulating the Indigenous Emerging out of the Renaissance and the industrial revolution, the set of disciplines that got institutionalised as the social sciences were fashioned in Europe. However, what were areas of scholarly inquiry responding to specifically Western problems and concerns, laid claim to universality in course of time and were uncritically accepted as being so until they began to be challenged by non-Western thinkers in the second half of the twentieth century. Bringing together 18 essays by distinguished social scientists, this volume is a major contribution to the debate on the indigenisation of the social sciences. It addresses two central questions from a primarily Asian perspective: - Are the social sciences that originated in the West, and are essentially indigenous to it, universal for the rest? - Can the universal explain the particular, unless the universals in the particulars of different cultural contexts contribute to the construction of the universal? Some of the issues explored in this twin framework are: - The de-parochialisation of Western social science. - The concept of the ‘captive mind’, which fails to fathom its captivity. - The limitations of Western social sciences on crucial issues such as modernisation, economic liberalisation and structural adjustment. - The validity and potential of indigenous models of development as demonstrated by Bhutan’s concept of Gross National Happiness. - Oral traditions and their potential for universal knowledge.