Life Time Achievement
Lifetime Achievement Award is the highest and most coveted award given by the Indian Sociological Society. The Society instituted the award with the following objectives:
To honour outstanding Indian Sociologists who have made profound and exceptional contributions in the field of sociology and thereby enriched the discipline of sociology and enhanced the capability and respectability of its professionals, and
To inspire and encourage other members of the profession to emulate these awardees and consider them as role models and to work for their own and the profession’s betterment and exaltation through creditable work and significant contribution.
The ISS publishes three journals and a newsletter.
The first is Sociological Bulletin which started in 1952 and is one of the oldest English language professional social science journals in India.
So far the Life-Time Achievement Award has been given to:
Prof. Tiplut Nongbri
Prof. Gattu Satyanarayana
Prof. Chandrashekhar Bhat
Prof. Virginius Xaxa
Prof. R.Indira
Prof. I.S. Chauhan
Prof. N. Jayaram
Prof. Anand Kumar
Prof. Shyam Lal
Prof. Vidyut Joshi
Prof.B.K. Nagla
Prof. M.N Panini
Prof. Gail Omvedt
Prof. M. N. Karna
Prof. Ratna Naidu
Prof. Nandu Ram
Prof. Patricia Uberoi
Prof. Yogesh Atal
Prof. Harish Doshi
Prof. Ishwar Prasad Modi
Prof. Y. C. Simhadri
Prof. Prakash N. Pimpley
Prof. Imtiaz Ahmad
Prof. Ramesh C. Tiwari
Prof. Satyendra Tripathi
Prof. Partha Nath Mukherji
Prof. Ravindra K. Jain
Prof. K. L. Sharma
Prof. C. Lakshmanna
Prof. U. B. Bhoite
Prof. J. P. S. Uberoi
Prof. P. K. B. Nayar
Prof. S. K. Srivastava
Prof. D. N. Dhanagare
Prof. T. K. Oommen
Prof. Suma Chitnis
Prof. Andre Beteille
Prof. A. M. Shah
Prof. Bela Duttagupta
Prof. T. N. Madan
Prof. Brij Raj Chauhan
rof. P.C. Joshi
Prof. Leela Dube
Prof. Yogender Singh
Prof. M.S.Gore
Prof. Ramkrishna Mukherji
Prof. Y.B. Daml
Prof. Victor D’Souza
Procedures regarding confirmation of Life Time Achievement Awards
Lifetime Achievement Award is the highest and most coveted award given by the Indian Sociological Society. The Society instituted the award with the following objectives:
Only Life Members of ISS who have a standing of 10 years will be eligible for the award.
The Committee to be constituted by the President for selecting the awardees will include: President of Society & Secretary of Society
Secretary of Society
- Two eminent scholars who are not members of Managing Committee of Society.
- The award may include a citation and a memento and will be presented in the inaugural function of annual conference of Society.
- Nominations for the award along with copies of bio-data of the nominees may be invited from sociologists. A sitting member of the Managing Committee and a RC convener cannot be nominated for this award.
- The scholar has to be nominated by at least three sitting managing committee members.
- Since it is a lifetime achievement award, hence it is linked with age, i.e. the scholar must have attained 70 years of age.
- A scholar to be selected for this award should be an eminent senior scholar with undisputable reputation and who has contributed significantly to the discipline of Sociology and the profession in India. The nominated person must have contributed to the sociological body of literature significantly apart from conducting research and there must be sufficient proof of such contribution. The scholar must have at least ten publications from reputed journals like Contributions to Indian Sociology, Sociological Bulletin, Economic and Political Weekly, The Eastern Anthropologist and books from reputed publishers like Oxford University Press, Sage Publications, Orient Longman/ Blackswan, Permanent Black, Cambridge University Press, Manohar, Rawat Publications, etc.
- The decision of the committee should be approved by the managing committee.
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