

From 1983 to 1986 he was Vice-Chancellor of the University of Bombay. He served as an Officiating Principal during 1953-54, and as Principal from 1954 to 1962, when he joined the Tata Institute of Social Sciences as Director and served the Institute in that capacity until his retirement in 1982. He also worked as a Senior Lecturer at the Delhi School of Social Work from 1948 to 1951. In 1951-53 he studied sociology in the Columbia University (USA) and obtained his Doctoral Degree from there in 1961. He was the recipient of Sir Dorabji Tata Research Fellow, and later obtained his Master’s Degree in sociology from Bombay University in 1948. Thereafter he studied at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences and obtained his post-graduate diploma in social Service Administration in 1945. He graduated with English Honours in the year 1942. He had his school education in Hubli and his collegiate education in colleges affiliated to the Bombay University in Dharwar, Pune, and Sangli.

Gore was born in Hubli, Karnataka on 15 August 1921. The book will interest sociologists, educationists, administrators and policy makers. The last part–"Sociology of education"–includes five papers, viz., the scope of a sociology of education sociology and educational research educational research for development decision-making and teaching. Part three on "Structure and process in higher education" consists of three papers, namely, universities and the government the crisis in university education and obstacles to creativity in higher education.

Part two entitled "Education and social goals" contains three papers, viz., social goals and the social content of education education and the inculcation of values and education and women’s equality. Part one, which is titled as "Education and Society" includes four papers, namely, education and modernization liberalism, education and social change education and the equality of opportunity and relevance, equality and creativity in education. The present anthology is written over a period of twenty-five years in sociological perspective of Indian education.
