Yogendra Singh

Prof Yogendra Singh at Caste & Communication Conference organised by Centre for Culture, Media & Governance, Jamia Millia Islamia in 2019. Yogendra Singh (2 November 1932 – 10 May 2020) was an Indian sociologist. He was one of the founders of the Centre for the Study of Social Systems at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, where he was a professor emeritus of Sociology.

Biography Singh was born in Chaukhara, Siddharth Nagar, India. He obtained his master's and PhD degrees from, Lucknow University. He went to Stanford University in the United States in 1967–68 on a Fulbright Fellowship, and became a professor and the head of the Department of Sociology at Jodhpur University. From 1971 he was a professor at Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi.

He was president of the Indian Sociological Society, and received the Indian Sociological Society Life Time Achievement Award in 2007, and the Best Social Scientist Award from the Government of Madhya Pradesh. Singh died on 10 May 2020.

Work His work covers critical analysis of the process of modernisation of India, the limitation of Sanskritisation, Westernisation and Little and Great Tradition in explaining social change in India through an integrated approach.