D. P. Mukerji’s concept of Purusha or Person as a creative agent endowed with a sense of responsibility to the rest of his/her native community and world at large offers an alternative template for sociology as understood in the west which foregrounds atomistic and atomized individuals. A solitary explorer in the realm of sociology of music in the hundred-year-old narrative of sociology in India, D.P. seeks to demonstrate that every art-form, music in particular, offers a means to develop personality and stimulate unity among human beings. It is exemplified in the practice of Indian music. Contrast of the ideas of Mukerji and Weber reveals their differences in assessment of the role of rationalization and capitalism in the development of music, culture and society. Overemphasis on rationalization and capitalistic interests block, according to D.P., innovativeness of Personality and creativity in music. His analysis reveals the vitality of Indian music in the modern era, as evidenced in the aesthetically satisfying blending of words and melody in Rabindrasangeet. But D.P.’s anxiety in what he deemed declining standard of Indian music blurred his vision of the innovations by the post-Tagore generations in the creation and enjoyment of music through the vicissitudes of time and social conditions.