This volume is the first of the three volumes that collect the Rudolphs' life works over a period of fifty years since their first visit to India in 1956. Volume I comprises two parts: Modes of Inquiry and Theorizing Politics and Society. The seven essays in the first section, Modes of Inquiry, reflect the changing methods of inquiry the authors have used over a period of time. The eight essays in the second section, Theorizing Politics and Society, were written over a period of 40 years, from 1961 to 2001. They explore the relationship between theory and empirical research in political science by focusing on areas like political culture, social change, and social structure.

Preface; Acknowledgements; I. Modes of Inquiry Introduction 1. Surveys in India: Field Experience in Madras State (Lloyd I. Rudolph and Susanne Hoeber Rudolph); 2. Determinants and Varieties of Agrarian Mobilization (Lloyd I. Rudolph and Susanne Hoeber Rudolph); 3. Engaging Subjective Knowledge: How Amar Singhs Diary Narratives of and by the Self Help Explain Identity Politics (Lloyd I. Rudolph and Susanne Hoeber Rudolph); 4. Review of Pradeep Chhibber, Democracy Without Associations: Transformation of the Party System and Social Cleavages in India (Lloyd I. Rudolph); 5. Presidential Address, American Political Science Association, The Imperialism of Categories (Susanne Hoeber Rudolph); 6. Perestroika and Its Other (Susanne Hoeber Rudolph); 7. Let a Hundred Flowers Bloom, Let a Hundred Schools of Thought Contend (Lloyd I. Rudolph); II. Theorizing Politics and Society Introduction 8. Consensus and Conflict in Indian Politics (Susanne Hoeber Rudolph); 9. Introduction in The Modernity of Tradition: Political Development in India (Lloyd I. Rudolph and Susanne Hoeber Rudolph); 10. Authority and Power in Bureaucratic and Patrimonial Administration: A Revisionist Interpretation of Weber on Bureaucracy (Lloyd I. Rudolph and Susanne Hoeber Rudolph); 11. Conclusion in In Pursuit of Lakshmi: The Political Economy of the Indian State (Lloyd I. Rudolph and Susanne Hoeber Rudolph); 12. The Media and Cultural Politics (Lloyd I. Rudolph); 13. Occidentalism and Orientalism: Perspectives on Legal Pluralism (Lloyd I. Rudolph and Susanne Hoeber Rudolph); 14. Civil Society and the Realm of Freedom (Susanne Hoeber Rudolph); 15. Living with Difference in India: Legal Pluralism and Legal Universalism in Historical Context (Susanne Hoeber Rudolph and Lloyd I. Rudolph); Index

Lloyd I. Rudolph , Professor Emeritus of Political Science, University of Chicago, Susanne Hoeber Rudolph , Professor Emeritus of Political Science, University of Chicago