Padma Bhushan Andre Beteille FBA
Beteille (left) receives thePadma Bhushan from thePresident of IndiaA. P. J. Abdul Kalam,c. 2005.
Born	(1934-09-30)30 September 1934 (age 90)
Nationality	Indian
Awards	Padma Bhushan Fellow of the British Academy
Academic background
Alma mater	University of Calcutta
Influences	G. S. Ghurye
Academic work
Discipline	Sociology
Institutions	University of Oxford University of Cambridge University of Chicago London School of Economics Delhi School of Economics Ashoka University

André Beteille (born 30 September 1934), is an Indiansociologist, writer, and academician. He is known for his studies of the caste system inSouth India.^[1] He has served with educational institutions in India such asDelhi School of Economics,North Eastern Hill University (in Shillong), andAshoka University.

Beteille was born to a French father and an Indian mother.^[2] He received his undergraduate and graduate degrees in anthropology from theUniversity of Calcutta.^[3] Thereafter he received his doctorate from theUniversity of Delhi. After a brief stint at theIndian Statistical Institute as a research fellow, he joined the faculty of sociology at theDelhi School of Economics.^[4]

He has taught at universities includingOxford University,Cambridge University, theUniversity of Chicago, and theLondon School of Economics. He has also served as the Chairman of theCentre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta and of theIndian Council of Social Science Research.^[4]

He was a Professor of Sociology at theDelhi School of Economics at theUniversity of Delhi where, since 2003, he remainsProfessor Emeritus ofSociology.^[5] He was appointed National Research Professor by theGovernment of India in 2007.^[6]

Presently, he is the Chancellor ofNorth Eastern Hill University,Shillong, Meghalaya^[7] and prior to that he served as theChancellor ofAshoka University.^[8][9][10]

He is a recipient of the third highest civilian honour of India, thePadma Bhushan, and was also made aFellow of the British Academy (FBA).^[11] He also served on the Social Sciences jury for theInfosys Prize in 2010.^{[citation needed]}

• Sociology: Essays on Approach and Method,Oxford University Press, 2002.
• Antinomies of Society: Essays on Ideologies and Institutions, Oxford University Press, 2000.
• Chronicles of Our Time,Penguin Books, 2000.
• The Backward Classes in Contemporary India, Oxford University Press, 1992.
• Social and Cultural Reproduction of Caste, Kinship and Occupation in India, 1991.
• Society and Politics in India: Essays in a Comparative Perspective,Athlone Press, 1991 (L.S.E. Monographs in Social Anthropology, no. 63).
• The Idea of Natural Inequality and Other Essays, Oxford University Press, 1983 (new, enlarged edition, Oxford University Press, 1987).
• Inequality Among Men,Basil Blackwell, 1977 (Italian edition published as La diseguaglianza fra gli uomini, Il Mulino, 1981).
• Studies in Agrarian Social Structure, Oxford University Press, 1974.
• Six Essays in Comparative Sociology, Oxford University Press, 1974 (enlarged edition published as Essays in Comparative Sociology, Oxford University Press, 1987).
• Inequality and Social Change, Oxford University Press, 1972.
• Castes: Old and New, Essays in Social Structure and Social Stratification, Asia Publishing House, 1969.
• Caste, Class and Power: Changing Patterns of Stratification in a Tanjore Village,University of California Press, 1965.

• Secularism Re-examined^[12]
• Race & Caste^[13]
• Teaching & Research^[14]
• Teaching and Research, Andre Beteille^[15]
• Government & NGOs^[16]

• Interviewed by Alan Macfarlane 1 June 1986 (video)
• Andre quits the knowledge commission - CNN-IBN news report
• A long view of two Indian social scientists

• 1934 births
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• Indian people of French descent
• Academic staff of Delhi University
• Recipients of the Padma Bhushan in literature & education
• Corresponding fellows of the British Academy
• 20th-century Indian social scientists
• Jawaharlal Nehru Fellows
• University of Calcutta alumni

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