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Akshaykumar Ramanlal Desai

Akshaykumar Ramanlal Desai(16 April 1915-12th November 1994) was an Indian Marxist,revolutionary thinker ,writer and

bibliographic and field research.^[7]

Early life

He was born in

trade union movement

|in 1936. and was a formal member of various political parties such as the Communist Party of India|(CPI)in 1934 and joined the Trotskyist Revolutionary Socialist Party| in 1953. He studied closely the works of Karl Marx, Engles and Leon Trotsky| and became a Trotskyist Marxist in his ideology.^[6]He became editor of newspapers and bulletins of All India Kisan Sabha in 1937 .^[2]

Education and career

He graduated in Political Science and Economics in 1935 , obtained law degree in 1941,and began his career in 1943 as a lawyer to help those in movements. He did his PhD in 1946 under the supervision of DrG.S.Ghurye| from University of Bombay. Muscovim (talk) 13:27, 3 July 2018 (UTC)user muscovimMuscovim (talk) 13:27, 3 July 2018 (UTC) and later joined as a college lecturer in Sociology in Mumbai in 1946 and in 1951 officially joined Bombay University's department of Sociology as a faculty member and retired from the University in 1976 .Muscovim (talk) 11:55, 7 September 2018 (UTC)User talk:Muscovim|talk]]) 10:28, 31 August 2018 (UTC)UserMuscovim

Rural Sociology| held in France| in 1964, visited the Soviet Union| as Senior Fellow (1971) and was deputed to Canada| by the University Grants Commission underShastri Indo-Canadian Institute|foundation in 1980.He participated in seminars and conferences held in Columbia University|(1976)and participated in an Expert Group Meeting on Population Growth and Economic Development in Sub-national areasin Bangkok| in 1977 ^[2]

Academic achievements and honors

ICSSR

| Senior Fellow from 1973 to 1975 and 1976 to 1977

ICSSR National Fellow from 1981 to 1985 .Muscovim (talk) 07:14, 6 October 2018 (UTC)userMuscovimMuscovim (talk) 07:14, 6 October 2018 (UTC).
Member of various academic bodies and visiting committees approved by UGC| and ICSSR
President , Gujrat Sociological Society(1980- 90)^[2]
President- 15 th All India Sociological Conference held at Meerut| (U.P.)in 1981 ^[10]Muscovim (talk) 03:53, 11 November 2018 (UTC)userMuscovimMuscovim (talk) 03:53, 11 November 2018 (UTC)

Perspectives and contributions

He studied Indian society from a Macro| and Meso| perspective, in which he studied state , capitalism, nationalism, class, agrarian structures and peasant movements much differently from the micro perspective dominant in Indian Sociology in the 1960s.^[8] Muscovim (talk) 09:58, 8 July 2018 (UTC)UserMuscovimMuscovim (talk) 09:58, 8 July 2018 (UTC) Muscovim (talk) 09:59, 8 July 2018 (UTC)UserMuscovimMuscovim (talk) 09:59, 8 July 2018 (UTC).He was a Marxist Sociologist who questioned mainstream sociology's conservative positions and presented an interdisciplinary social science viewpoint.He also documented the history of working classes and was the first to notice and highlight ,record and draw attention to the informal sector and struggles of unorganized workers later to be theorized by economists and anthropologists.^[9] In many of his writings he highlighted the violation of democratic rights of women, slum dwellers , press and other media by the post-independence capitalist state in India,which, with its administrative level apparatus , protected the propertied classes and suppressed the struggles of the exploited classes.^[7]. His compendium on rural sociology in India was a pacesetter in Indian agrarian sociology<noi nclude>

In getting Marxism to the mainstream of Indian academics,he gave notice that Marxism had a place within Sociology and also provided a forum for radical minded scholars in Bombay University to broaden their horizons of research^[11]Muscovim (talk) 04:42, 28 October 2018 (UTC)UserMuscovimMuscovim (talk) 04:42, 28 October 2018 (UTC). Muscovim (talk) 04:53, 22 November 2018 (UTC)User MuscovimMuscovim (talk) 04:53, 22 November 2018 (UTC)