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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 (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 (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 (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 (1964) 23 (4): 597–598.
Published: 01 August 1964
...Bernard Barber Clan, Caste, and Club . By F. L. K. Hsu . Princeton, N. J. : D. Van Nostrand Co. , 1963 . xi, 335 . $7.95. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1964 1964 BOOK REVIEWS 597 crash comes, which he expects, he fears that with his latest book, he will become...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1965) 24 (3): 544–546.
Published: 01 May 1965
...Yogesh Atal Caste and Ritual in a Malwa Village . By K. S. Mathur . New York : Asia Publishing House , 1964 . viii, 215 . Bibliography, Plates, Index. $11.00. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1965 1965 544 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES India's northern mountainous...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1964) 23 (S1): 151–197.
Published: 01 June 1964
... the Indian system of social stratification to the Hindu religious system. These concepts are applied to matters of personal conduct, health, and justice, and are fundamental to such well-known aspects of Indian culture as untouchability, limited access to wells, and the setting apart of a priestly caste. One...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1962) 21 (3): 434–436.
Published: 01 May 1962
...David G. Mandelbaum Caste Ranking and Community Structure in Five Regions of India and Pakistan . By McKim Marriott . Deccan College Monograph Series: 23. Poona : Deccan College Postgraduate and Research Institute , 1960 . Illustrated, Tables, References. Rs. 5. (paper). Copyright ©...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1960) 20 (1): 131–132.
Published: 01 November 1960
...Bernard S. Cohn Caste and Kinship in Central India . By Adrian C. Mayer . Berkeley : University of California Press , 1960 , xvi , 295 . Plates, References, Glossary, Index. $6.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1960 1960 BOOK REVIEWS 131 voted to "Mahatma...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1966) 26 (1): 139–140.
Published: 01 November 1966
...Ralph W. Nicholas 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. $5.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1966...
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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 (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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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 (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 (1975) 35 (1): 63–84.
Published: 01 November 1975
... of different disciplines, which create in turn discontinuities between contemporary and historical studies of Indian society. Thus historians have generally not focused on caste or caste associations, while a central referent of anthropologists has been precisely the caste ( jati ) unit. Partly this reflects...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1978) 37 (2): 233–250.
Published: 01 February 1978
...Lucy Carroll Abstract Late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century “caste” organizations and “caste” polemics were, to a greater extent than has been appreciated, responses to foreign definitions of Indian society. The most important stimulus toward caste-cluster consciousness released...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1978) 37 (3): 564–566.
Published: 01 May 1978
...Karen Leonard A Caste in a Changing World: The Chitrapur Saraswat Brahmans, 1700–1935 . By Frank F. Conlon . Berkeley : University of California Press , 1977 . xv, 255 pp. Maps, Tables, Glossary, Bibliography, Index. $15.00 Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1978...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1990) 49 (1): 187–188.
Published: 01 February 1990
...Susan S. Wadley The Poison in the Gift: Ritual, Prestation, and the Dominant Caste in a North Indian Village . By Gloria Goodwin Raheja . Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 1988 . xiv, 286 pp. $42.50 (cloth); $16.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1998) 57 (2): 591–592.
Published: 01 May 1998
...David Rudner The Northern Nadars of Tamil Nadu. An Indian Caste in the Process of Change . By Dennis Templeman . Delhi : Oxford University Press , 1996 . xxi, 284 p. $24.95 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1998 1998 BOOK REVIEWS SOUTH ASIA 591...
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