Max Weber
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Max Weber
Max Weber, a German political economist, legal historian, and sociologist, had an impact on the social sciences that is difficult to overestimate. According to a widely held view, he was the founder of the modern way of conceptualizing society and thus the modern social sciences. His major interest was the process of rationalization, which characterizes Western civilization---what he called the "demystification of the world." This interest led him to examine the three types of domination or authority that characterize hierarchical relationships: charismatic, traditional, and legal. It also led him to the study of bureaucracy; all of the world's major religions; and capitalism, which he viewed as a productof the Protestant ethic. With his contemporary, the French sociologist Emile Durkheim---they seem not to have known each other's work---he created modern sociology.
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Vinod C. Khanna
Vinod C. Khanna, Emeritus Fellow, Institute of Chinese Studies and former Ambassador to Cuba, Indonesia and Bhutan.
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Alexander Baykov
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Swarnalatha Rangarajan
Swarnalatha Rangarajan is professor in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at IIT Madras, and is passionate about environmental humanities. She is the founding editor of the Indian Jou
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Lakshmi Sahgal
Captain Lakshmi Sahgal of the Rani Jhansi Regiment was born into a highly political, nationalist family. She had her early political education at home, when the family boycotted English goods and spok![](https://mayday.leftword.com/pub/static/frontend/leftword/luma_child/en_US/images/no-image.png)
Fred Halliday
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Dwaipayan Banerjee
Dwaipayan Banerjee is a social activist, labour history and film researcher and independent editor based in Kolkata. He has been a trade union activist and political commentator. He is one of the&n
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Arup Banerji
Arup Banerji teaches Tsarist Russian and Soviet history at the Department of History, Delhi University.
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Arvind Narrain
Arvind Narrain is an advocate and founder member of the Alternative Law Forum, Bangalore. He is the author of Queer: Despised Sexuality, Law and Social Change and co-editor of Because I Have a Voic