1. Introduction Part I: Engagement with Disciplinary Prisms: Expanding Horizons 2. Meandering through the Art of Medicine and the Science of Society 3. A 'Self' Embedded in 'Social' 4. Forging a Practice through Autobiographical Questioning 5. Contours of a Discipline:Perseverance, Social Sciences and the Word 6. Whither Swaraj? 7. Self, Society and Social Science Knowledge 8. The Fusing of Research and Teaching: Groovy Economics, Groovy Science 9. Travels through Changing Times: My Search for Social Relevance 10. Embodied Memories: A Journey with Ambedkar 11. Self in the Making of Partition Literature Part II: Reflections on Disciplinary Practices: Pedagogy and Research 12. Social and Institutional Engagements in a Periphery: Reflections on a Personal Journey 13. Of Tactic and Tenacity: Tale of a Teacher 14. Between (Auto) Biographical and Anthropological: Bearing of the Interplay on Teaching and Research 15. My Journey: Unfinished, Unending 16. Biography And Social Forces 17. Inside/Outside/In-between: On the Discomfort of Shifting Locations as a Border-Crossing Academic 18. Journeys in History, Personal and Professional 19. On Teaching Sociological Theory