{"id":78271,"date":"2019-09-09T01:32:07","date_gmt":"2019-09-08T20:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=78271"},"modified":"2019-09-09T01:32:07","modified_gmt":"2019-09-08T20:02:07","slug":"renowned-sociologist-fr-alphonsus-dsouza-passes-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2019\/09\/09\/renowned-sociologist-fr-alphonsus-dsouza-passes-away\/","title":{"rendered":"Renowned sociologist Fr Alphonsus D&#8217;Souza passes away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>ITANAGAR, Sep 8:<\/strong> Prof (Fr) Alphonsus D&#8217;Souza (78), senior fellow at the North Eastern Social Research Centre (NESRC), Guwahati, Assam, passed away on 6 September.<br \/>\nFr D&#8217;Souza founded the sociology department at St Aloysius College in Mangalore (Karnataka) in 1972 and taught there till 1995. That year, he shifted to St Joseph&#8217;s College in Jakhama, Nagaland, to found the first sociology department in that state. He is considered the &#8216;father of sociology&#8217; in Nagaland.<br \/>\nHe taught there till 2008, and then shifted to Guwahati as a senior fellow at the NESRC. He was diagnosed with lung cancer in June this year, and died peacefully at 7:05 am on 6 September.<br \/>\nHis funeral was held at the Jesuit Novitiate in Mawshohroh, Meghalaya, on 8 September.<br \/>\nFr D&#8217;Souza was a Jesuit priest and an eminent sociologist who has written much, particularly on Nagaland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ITANAGAR, Sep 8: Prof (Fr) Alphonsus D&#8217;Souza (78), senior fellow at the North Eastern Social Research Centre (NESRC), Guwahati, Assam, passed away on 6 September. Fr D&#8217;Souza founded the sociology department at St Aloysius College in Mangalore (Karnataka) in 1972 and taught there till 1995. That year, he shifted to St Joseph&#8217;s College in Jakhama, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-78271","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78271\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}