Sudhir KumarAIR 42 · CSE 2017 · 181 wordsTheir whole copy
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G.S. Ghurye is doyen of Indian Civilization and studied Indian civilization through indological approach. Ghurye was a theoretical pluralist as he employed various methods - indology, nationalist, diffusionist - to study of Indian society. Though he focused more on textual approach yet he favoured field approach too.
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Ghurye defined civilization as total of social heritage projected on the social plane. It is attribute of a society.
Ghurye was a nationalist and therefore studies Indian civilization as being antique and integral. He applies diffusionist idea that culture has a history and that they spread.
He says that there has not been any completely civilized society. Also, there is law of continuous change. Every civilization has some distinctive qualities.
But Ghurye's perspective was Brahminical. He considered tribes as lost castes who could not be integrated well into the
caste fold. He was Indian's Durkheim, focusing on structures leading to solidarity. He believed that Islamic invasion broke continuity of Hindu civilization.
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Ghurye is criticised as being Brahminic, overseeing the fusion of Hinduism and Islamic ideals, the independent nature of tribes, of being overly textual.