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Journal of Asian Studies (1965) 25 (1): 33–50.
Published: 01 November 1965
...Rajni Kothari; Rushikesh Maru Abstract A study of the interactions between the caste system and political democracy in India rejects the familiar theory that there is a dichotomy between a traditional society and a modern polity. On the contrary, it underlines the functional relevance of indigenous...
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in Intimate Desires: Dalit Women and Religious Conversions in Colonial India
> Journal of Asian Studies
Published: 01 August 2014
Figure 8. Upper-caste woman and lower-caste male servant. (Tending the Feet: Prosperous Woman: When you rub my feet with your hands, I am deeply contented. Servant: I know your pulse. Body Paste: Prosperous Woman: Rub a little more. . . . Servant: I might sprain you. . . .) Source: Vyanga
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Journal of Asian Studies (1982) 41 (4): 865–866.
Published: 01 August 1982
...Paul G. Hiebert Caste and Christianity: Attitudes and Policies on Caste of Anglo-Saxon Protestant Missions in India . By Duncan B. Forrester . London : Curzon Press, Humanities Press , 1980 . viii, 202 pp. Bibliography, Index. $13.75 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1981) 41 (1): 167–168.
Published: 01 November 1981
...Richard Burghart Naître Renonçant: Une Caste de Sannyāsi Villageois au Népal Central [To Be Born a Renouncer: A Caste of Sannyāsi Villagers in Central Nepal] . By Véronique Bouillier . Nanterre : Laboratoire d'Ethnologie et de Sociologie Comparative, Université de Paris X , 1979 . 264 pp...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1986) 45 (5): 1104–1105.
Published: 01 November 1986
...Frank F. Conlon Caste, Conflict and Ideology: Mahatma Jotirao Phule and Low-Caste Protest in Nineteenth-Century Western India . By Rosalind O'Hanlon xiv, 326 pp. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 1985 . Bibliographic Note, Bibliography, Glossary, Index. $44.50. Copyright ©...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2018) 77 (2): 558–560.
Published: 01 May 2018
...Veena Deo The Gender of Caste: Representing Dalits in Print . By Charu Gupta . Seattle : University of Washington Press , 2016 . 352 pp. ISBN: 9780295995649 (cloth, also available as e-book). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2018 2018 If Dalit women's voices...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2019) 78 (2): 464–468.
Published: 01 May 2019
...Eliza F. Kent Possessed by the Virgin: Hinduism, Roman Catholicism, and Marian Possession in South India . By Kristin C. Bloomer . New York : Oxford University Press , 2017 . xv, 325 pp. The Saint in the Banyan Tree: Christianity and Caste Society in India . By David Mosse...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2019) 78 (1): 3–22.
Published: 01 February 2019
...Navyug Gill Abstract This article explores the contradictory history of lower castes converting out of Hinduism yet not out of lowliness or casteism in early twentieth-century Panjab. It begins by contextualizing what B. R. Ambedkar's undelivered 1936 Lahore speech on annihilating caste might have...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1960) 19 (4): 486–488.
Published: 01 August 1960
...William McCormack Hierarchy and Marriage Alliance in South Indian Kinship . By Louis Dumont . (Occasional Papers of the Royal Anthropological Institute, No. 12.) London : Royal Anthropological Institute , 1957 . 45 . 14 figures. 10 s. $1.50. Une sous-caste de l'Inde du Sud...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1966) 26 (1): 139–140.
Published: 01 November 1966
...Ralph W. Nicholas Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1966 1966 Caste, Class, and Power: Changing Patterns of Stratification in a Tanjore Village . By Andre Beteille . Berkeley and Los Angeles : University of California Press , 1965 . 225 pp. References, Index...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2015) 74 (3): 778–780.
Published: 01 August 2015
...Anupama Rao The Pariah Problem: Caste, Religion, and the Social in Modern India . By Rupa Viswanath . New York : Columbia University Press , 2014 . xviii, 396 pp. $60.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2015 2015 Dalit history has seen something...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2015) 74 (2): 502–504.
Published: 01 May 2015
...Deepti Misri The Sexual Life of English: Languages of Caste and Desire in Colonial India . By Shefali Chandra . Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press , 2012 . 275 pp. $89.95 (cloth); $24.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2015 2015 It will be our...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2015) 74 (2): 510–511.
Published: 01 May 2015
...V. Geetha Beyond Caste: Identity and Power in South Asia, Past and Present . By Sumit Guha . Leiden : Brill , 2013 . 236 pp. $127.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2015 2015 Sumit Guha's Beyond Caste seeks to detach the study of caste from...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2021) 80 (2): 511–513.
Published: 01 May 2021
...Narendra Subramanian The study nevertheless imaginatively analyzes the mobilization of India's ranked identities and provides raw material useable to craft “a new theory of . . . ranked (ethnic) mobilization” (p. 8). While underlining that caste is comparable with other ascriptive...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1981) 40 (2): 400–402.
Published: 01 February 1981
...Daniel M. Neuman Caste and Social Stratification Among Muslims in India . Edited by Imtiaz Ahmed . 2nd rev., and enl. ed. Columbia, Mo. : South Asia Books , 1978 . 314 pp. Notes, Glossary, Index. $16.50. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1981 1981 400 JOURNAL OF ASIAN...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2014) 73 (3): 837–839.
Published: 01 August 2014
... of undertaking a wide-ranging study such as this. A History of Prejudice: Race, Caste, and Difference in India and the United States . By Gyanendra Pandey . New York : Cambridge University Press , 2013 . 285 pp. $85.00 (cloth); $29.99 (paper); $24.00 (e-book). Copyright © The Association for Asian...
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in Between Solidarity and Complicity: The Politics of Representation in Bhimayana
> Journal of Asian Studies
Published: 01 May 2020
Figure 11. Cover of Teltumbde's The Persistence of Caste (Teltumbde 2010 ). Courtesy of Navayana.
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in Technophany and Its Publics: Artisans, Technicians, and the Rise of Vishwakarma Worship in India
> Journal of Asian Studies
Published: 01 February 2022
Figure 5. Women from the Mewada Suthar caste of hereditary artisans carrying the Vishwakarma Purana in procession along city streets to the site of the Vishwakarma Katha, at Mirchi Medan, Ghodasar, Ahmedabad, December 12, 2017. Photograph by Ken George.
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Journal of Asian Studies (1982) 41 (4): 863–864.
Published: 01 August 1982
...Pauline Kolenda Caste and Other Inequities: Essays on Inequality . By Gerald D. Berreman . Meerut, India : Folklore Institute , 1979 . xvii, 324 pp. Bibliography. Rs 85 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1982 1982 BOOK REVIEWS SOUTH ASIA 863 cotta from...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1967) 26 (3): 495–496.
Published: 01 May 1967
...Douglas G. Haring Japan's Invisible Race. Caste in Culture and Personality . By George De Vos and Hiroshi Wagatsuma . Berkeley and Los Angeles : University of California Press , 1966 . xxiii, 415 pp. $8.75. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1967 1967 BOOK...
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