ABSTRACT
This chapter deals with Srinivas’s work as professor and head of the new Department of Sociology at the University of Baroda, 1951-1958: how he organised the teaching of sociology at B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. levels; how he recruited the faculty; how he shifted his theoretical interest from structural-functionalism to social change; how he emphasised fieldwork in his research students’ work; how he developed the tradition of village studies; and how he developed this department into a leading one in the country.
