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Focusing on the gaps in the practice, methodologies, pedagogies, and texts related to the 'Sociology of India', this article locates key problems in the theoretical and methodological orientation of the discipline, analyses the tensions within and between the varied institutions responsible for the production of sociological knowledge, and notes the absence of linkages between the discipline and the larger society and nation. The article provides three suggestions to pluralise the discipline: facilitating wider and more diverse themes and issues in research including encouraging studies of the 'vicinity'; developing and deploying multiple methodologies to study and represent a range of issues; and integrating Indian language writings into the pedagogical, textual, and theoretical apparatus of the discipline. IAlthough the debate on the 'Sociology of India' (henceforth SOI) generally refers to the discussion initiated in 1957 by Louis Dumont and subsequent discussions around the substantive content and conceptual orientations of the discipline, 1 I expand that focus to include the literature and practice of sociology (coterminous in India with social anthropology).

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