According to Indian economist and sociologist Radhakamal Mukerjee (1889–1968), the Eurocentric concepts that informed
early twentieth-century social scientiﬁc methods—for example, the idea that all social relations are reducible to struggles
between individuals—had little relevance for India. Making the social sciences more responsive to Indians’ needs, Mukerjee
argued, required constructing analytical categories informed by India’s cultural and ecological circumstances. Mukerjee thus
proposed the communalist “Indian village” as the ideal model on which to base Indian economic and social policy.
The text recounts Mukerjee’s early training in the social scientiﬁc disciplines and then lists social policies whose
implementation Mukerjee oversaw.
The text mentions some of Mukerjee’s economic theories and then traces their impact on other Indian social scientists of
the twentieth century.
The text presents Mukerjee’s critique of the social sciences and then provides an example of his attempts to address
issues he identiﬁed in his critique.
The text explains an inﬂuential economic theory and then demonstrates how that theory was more important to
Choice C is the best answer. The text does indeed present Mukerjee’s critique of the social sciences—that they were too
Eurocentric—and then provides an example of how he attempted to address the issues he identiﬁed: by suggesting a social
science model based on the Indian village.
Choice A is incorrect. The text doesn’t discuss Mukerjee’s early training or his oversight of the implementation of social
policies at all. Choice B is incorrect. The text never discusses any other Indian social scientists. Choice D is incorrect. The
text never mentions other social scientists’ responses to Mukerjee’s work.