LIST OF ALL INDIA SOCIOLOGICAL CONFERENCES (1955-2005).

Prof. R.N Saksena and his colleagues had organized six All India Sociological Conferences as listed below. In continuation to these six conferences, the Seventh All India Sociological Conference was organized in 1967. From 1967-1978 these conferences were organized with three or four specific themes. From 1987 onwards the conferences were organized with a single theme. Details of these conferences are given below:

 

 

 

 

 








Sl No.
Year & Date
Themes

ALL INDIA SOCIOLOGICAL CONFERENCES HELD PRIOR TO MERGER WITH

INDIAN SOCIOLOGICAL SOCIETY

I
1955
Dehradun
II
1957
Patna
III
1958
Calcutta
IV
1959
Lucknow
V
1960
Agra
VI
1961
Sagar

 

ALL INDIA SOCIOLOGICAL CONFERENCES HELD AFTER MERGER WITH

INDIAN SOCIOLOGICAL SOCIETY

VII

1967
October 14-16

Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Bombay

(a) Sociological Prerequisites of Democratic Policy.

(b) Education and Social Change.

(c) Industrialization and its Social Consequences.

VIII
1968
September 1-3
Institute of Social Sciences, Agra University, Agra

(a) Religion and Modernization.

(b) Political Sociology.

(c) Changing Patterns of Statification.

IX
1969
November 22-25
Department of Humanities & Sciences. IIT

(a) Gandhi's contribution to Indian Thought and Action.

(b)Science, Technology & Society.

(c) Sociology of religion, Sociology of Kinship, Education and society.

(d) Teaching Sociology in the Regional Languages

X
1970
December 26-28
Osmania University, Hyderabad

(a) Sociology of National Integration.

(b) Sociology of Socialist Revolution.

(c) Sociology of Social Organisation.

XI
1972
April 28-30
Gujarat University, Ahemdabad

(a) Social Demography.

(b) Sociology of Development.

(c) Changing Patterns of Caste.

(d) Urbanism and Urbanisation

XII
1974
October 28-30

Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi

(a) Sociology of Conflict.

(b) Sociology of Devolopment.

(c) Sociology of Law.

XIII
1976
December 26-28
Panjab Unuiversity, Chandigarh

(a) Sociologist: Observer , Analyst or Interventionist.

(b) Sociology of Social Movements.

(c) Sociology of Peasants and Workers.

(d) Towards Reorientation of Teaching and Reserch in Sociology.

XIV
1978
December28-30

Jabalpur University
Jabalpur

(a) Educatoin Policies in India.

(b) Transforming of Tribal Societies.

(c) Changing Status of Women in India.

XV
1980
November 2-4
Meerut University,
Meerut
Information not available
XVI
1982
December 29-31
Annamalai University,
Annamalai Nagar
Information not available
XVII
1984
December 27-29
South Gujrat University,
Surat
Information not available
XVIII
1987
May 19-21
North Eastern Hill University, Shillong
Sociology and Social Transformation in India.
XIX
1989
March 3-5
Haryana Agricultutral University, Hissar
Information not available
XX
1993
December 29-31
St. Alosious College, Mangalore
Identity, Equality & Social Transformation.
XXI
1994
December 19-21
Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi

Cultural Dimensions of Social Change.

XXII
1995
December 16-18
Barkatullah University, Bhopal
Challenge of change and the Indian Sociology: Retrospect and Prospect.
XXIII
1996
November 23-25
Shivaji University, Kolapur
Ecology, Society and Culture.
XXIV
1997
December 22-24
Osmania University, Hyderabad
Fifty Years of India's Independence and Beyond
XXV
1998
December 17-19
Aligarh Muslim
University, Aligarh
Nation, Nationality and National Identity: South Asia.
XXVI
2000
December 29-31
University of Kerala,
Thiruvananthapuram
Civil Society in India
XXVII
2001
December 26-28
Guru Nanak Dev
University, Amritsar
Half a Century of Sociology in India (1951- 2001)
Challenges, Responses and Expectations
XXVIII
2002
December 18-20
Indian Institute of
Technology,Kanpur
Globalisation and the Indian Society
XXIX
2003
December 21-23
M P University of Agriculture and Technology, Udaipur

Social Policy, Governance and Mobilization.

XXX

2004
December 27-29

D.D.U. Gorakhpur University, Gorakhpur, UP National Policy on Social Sciences
XXXI

2005
October 25-27

University of Jammu
Jammu (J& K)
Redesigning Sociology : Teaching and Research
XXXII

2006
27-29 December

Universiy of Madras
Chennai (Tamil Nadu)
Science, Technology and Society: Emerging Issues
XXXIII

2007
29-30 November
1 December

Karnatak University
Dharwad (Karnataka)
State, Civil Society and Social Justice