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...Barry H. Michie Abstract Baniyas (moneylender/traders) have a bad reputation. Though the functions they perform are similar, they in no way enjoy the respectability and admiration accorded bankers and businessmen, their brethren in spirit. They are castigated by villager and scholar alike...

... that occurred on August 10, 1888, between the Mahajan (headman) of the Modh Baniya caste council and Mohandas K. Gandhi, a Modh Baniya himself. Even though the discussion involved two people with an intersubjectively shared lifeworld, who were engaged in the deliberation as equals, the dialogue broke down...

... as accomplices of the tax collectors. In 1796, there were 168 \anungos in the Benares region. Judging on the basis of names, fifty-five were Kayastha or Baniya, twenty-two were Rajput or Bhumihar, seven were Muslim, and I couldn't make an ascription about the caste of thirty-seven.8 The sarrishtadar, like...

... of the public sphere is relevant to understanding debates and arguments in colonial societies, Sujay Biswas focuses on the problem of intersubjectivity, shared life worlds, and communicative rationality in India, with specific attention to Mohandas K. Gandhi's public debate with the Mahajan of the Modha Baniya...

.... Instead of British redcoats or Portuguese fidalgo s, Sood speaks of families of Gujarati baniyas , Julfan (Isfahani) Armenians, and Baghdadi Jews. It was the family firms of just such groups, he argues, that provided the arena's “connective tissue.” It seems we have come very far from Panikkar's “Vasco...

... whereby the twice-born under such circumstances become so degraded as to be classed, not only theoretically but practically among the lower order of Sudras; there are in fact thousands of Baniyas and Thakurs who avowedly belong to the Dwiji class and yet do not put on the sacred thread.” ( Stta Ram v...

... and Hamirpur districts in central Uttar Pradesh, and Mirzapur and Jaunpur districts in eastern U.P. The Umar are locally classified as Vaesiya or Baniya, that is, one of many castes claiming trade as their traditional occupation. They are to be found in all the major cities and towns of the region, primarily...

.... Baniyas in the Indian Agrarian Economy: A Case ofStagnant Entrepreneurship NELSON, DONALD. Brhatkatha Studies: The Problem ofan Ur-text OBEYESEKERE, GANANATH. The Fire-walkers of Kataragama: The Rise o/Bhakti Religiosity in Buddhist Sri Lanka STANLEY, JOHN M. Special Time, Special Power: The Fluidity...

... to six months imprisonment.25 The latest D K campaign, launched on June 5, i960, after a number of postponements, featured burning maps of India, not including Tamilnad, in order ". . . to impress Delhi how disgusted the Tamils are at the 'Brahmin-Baniya hegemony' exercised from that distant place."26...

... : Oxford University Press . Hardiman David . 1987 . “ The Bhils and Shahukars of Eastern Gujarat .” In Subaltern Studies: Writings on South Asian History and Society , ed. Ranajit Guha , 1 – 54 . New Delhi : Oxford University Press . Hardiman David . 1996 . Feeding the Baniya...