... University Press . Marco della Tomba and the Brahmin from Banaras: Missionaries, Orientalists, and Indian Scholars DAVID N. LORENZEN ROMAN CATHOLIC MISSIONARIES FROM EUROPE established a permanent presence in India in the year 1500, when eight Franciscans arrived in Cochin with the Portuguese expedition...

...Pablo S. Bose Banaras Reconstructed: Architecture and Sacred Space in a Hindu Holy City . By Madhuri Desai . Seattle : University of Washington Press , 2017 . x, 292 pp. ISBN: 9780295741994 (paper). Urban Traditions and Historic Environments in Sindh: A Fading Legacy of Shikarpoor...

...Lawrence A. Babb Banaras: City of Light . By Diana L. Eck . New York : Knopf , 1982 . xvi, 344 pp. Appendixes, Glossary, Notes, Bibliography, Acknowledgments, Illustrations, Index. $25. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1983 1983 180 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES Crane...

...Joseph S. Alter Friends, Brothers ans Informants: Fieldwork Memoirs of Banaras . By Nita Kumar . Berkeley : University of California Press , 1992 . xi, 271 pp. $35.00 (cloth); $13.00 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1993 1993 194 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN...

...Sandria B. Freitag Culture in Action: Family Life, Emotion, and Male Dominance in Banaras, India . By Steve Derné . Albany : State University of New York Press , 1995 . xiii, 232 pp. $54.50 (cloth); $17.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1997 1997...

...Peter van der Veer 968 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES Culture and Power in Banaras: Community, Performance and Environment, 1800 1980. Edited by SANDRIA B . FREITAG. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989- 308 pp. $35.00. This is an important collection which discusses various aspects...

...Sandria B. Freitag The Artisans of Banaras: Popular Culture and Identity, 1880–1986 . By Nita Kumar . Princeton : Princeton University Press , 1988 . xx , 279 pp. $29.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1989 1989 656 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES The only weak...

...Daniel Gold Living Banaras: Hindu Religion in Cultural Context . Edited by Bradley R. Hertel and Cynthia Ann Humes . Albany : State University of New York Press , 1993 . xi, 320 pp. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1995 1995 BOOK REVIEWS SOUTH ASIA 239...

...Kathryn Hansen The Nationalization of Hindu Traditions: Bhāratendu Hariśchandra and Nineteenth-century Banaras . By Vasudha Dalmia . Delhi : Oxford University Press , 1996 . xii, 490 pp. $39.95 (cloth). Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1998 1998 1194 THE JOURNAL...

...Manu Bhagavan Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2002 2002 Lessons from Schools: The History of Education in Banaras . By Nita Kumar . New Delhi : Sage Publications , 2000 . 232 pp. $45.00 (cloth); $22.95 (paper). BOOK REVIEWS SOUTH ASIA 755 now codified...

..." (p. 60). On the other if there is anything left except a husk of title. hand, Barry notes a change in attitude toward SURYA P. SHARMA occupational values which correlates to length Banaras Hindu University, Law School of stay in the United States. Thai students ...

...Philip Lutgendorf Abstract The most popular book in northern India is a Hindi retelling of the ancient tale of Prince Rām and his wife, Sītāa, composed in about A.D. 1574 by the poet-saint Tulsīdās of Banaras. Throughout a vast region with a population of more than three hundred million people...

... they were merely the annals of the parish." R. J. MOORE Flinders University of South Australia Banaras: City of Light. By DIANA L. ECK. New York: Knopf, 1982. xvi, 344 pp. Appendixes, Glossary, Notes, Bibliography, Acknowledgments, Illustrations, Index. $25. Occasionally a book appears that has the breadth...

... they individually dealt, but kept looking for what they would tell me specifically about Banaras, which I thought was their unifying focus. Yet save for the essays on the Ramnagar Ramlila, most covered phenomena with direct parallels in many other urban environments. This relative lack of significant Banaras...

... of the younger Goyal is far too dependent on that of the elder. ROBERT A. HUECKSTEDT University of Manitoba Living Banaras: Hindu Religion in Cultural Context. Edited by BRADLEY R. H E R T E L and C Y N T H I A A N N H U M E S . Albany: State University of New York Press, 1993. xi, 320 pp. An ancient city...

... at once. It is the inaugural address of Jawaharlal Nehru which has that wonderful mixture of charm and historical insight of which the prime minister was such a master: . . . There are many things in Banaras which I dislike very much; it is not a clean city, the city itself: there are very objectionable...

... discusses the way the health of Banaras was tied up with networks of communication. Very suggestive is his treatment of the conflict between the British perception of the disease-ridden nature of a Hindu pilgrimage center and Hindu perceptions of pollution, death and salvation. This reminds us of the fact...

...: The History of Education in Banaras. By NlTA K U M A R . New Delhi: Sage Publications, 2000. 232 pp. $45.00 (cloth); $22.95 (paper). The nexus between nationalism, colonialism, and education in South Asia is one that has yet to be fully explored. Nita Kumar's Lessons from Schools represents in its innovative...

.... It is the inaugural address of Jawaharlal Nehru which has that wonderful mixture of charm and historical insight of which the prime minister was such a master: . . . There are many things in Banaras which I dislike very much; it is not a clean city, the city itself: there are very objectionable smells about...

... in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, describing the important innovative artists and performance genres of late Mughal Delhi, Rohilkhand, Jaipur, Lucknow, Banaras Gwalior, Bengal, Lucknow, Rampur and other centers. Finally, Miner turns to techniques and compositions for these instruments, delineating...