# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/m-n-srinivas
# Generated: 2026-09-07T20:02:52.347Z

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name: "M. N. Srinivas"
slug: "m-n-srinivas"
description: "Mysore Narasimhachar Srinivas was an Indian sociologist and social anthropologist. He is mostly known for his work on caste and caste systems, social stratification, Sanskritisation and Westernisation in southern India and the concept of 'dominant caste'. He is considered to be one of the pioneering personalities in the field of sociology and social anthropology in India as his work in Rampura remains one of the early examples of ethnography in India. That was in contrast to most of his contemporaries of the Bombay School, who focused primarily on a historical methodology to conduct research, mainly in Indology. He also founded the Department of Sociology at the Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi in 1959."
tagline: "Indian anthropologist"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/2d/Mysore_Narasimhachar_Srinivas.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "IN"
category:
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birthDate: "1916-11-16"
deathDate: "1999-11-30"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
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