Job Description
The Role
nYou will teach across BA and MA Sociology — classical and contemporary theory, Indian society, and research methods — and supervise the Varanasi-based ethnographic fieldwork built into the postgraduate curriculum.
nThe fieldwork is the distinctive part of this post. Caste, ritual, occupational community, urban informality, gendered space, religious economy and rural-urban migration are not abstractions here; they are visible within a few kilometres of the campus, and postgraduate students go out and study them. Supervising that work well — methodologically and ethically — is a substantial part of the role.
nFull-time, in office at Babatpur, Varanasi.
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nResponsibilities
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nTeaching
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- Teach classical sociological theory — Marx, Weber, Durkheim, and the foundational traditions — at UG and PG leveln
- Teach contemporary and post-classical theory, including structural-functionalism, conflict, symbolic interactionism, and later critical approachesn
- Teach Indian sociology and social institutions: caste, kinship, family, marriage, religion,



tribe, village and urban studies, and the Indian thinkers — Ghurye, Srinivas, Dumont, Ambedkar, Béteillen
- Teach social problems, social change, and development — agrarian change, urbanisation, migration, gender, and social movementsn
- Teach research methods with practical training in both qualitative and quantitative technique — sampling, interviewing, observation, questionnaire design, coding, and basic statistical analysisn

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nFieldwork supervision
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- Design and supervise ethnographic fieldwork in and around Varanasi — site selection, access negotiation, method choice, and field supervisionn
- Train students in field practice: rapport-building, interviewing, participant observation, field-note discipline, and the reflexive work of writing themselves into the accountn
- Own research ethics for student fieldwork — informed consent, anonymisation, handling of sensitive mater

📌 Assistant Professor (Varanasi)
🏢 Banaras Institute of Teacher's Education
📍 Varanasi