... and rural people in some measure overlap? Urban life and Populist Radicalism Dravidian Politics in Madras LLOYD I. RUDOLPH TH E Indian Municipal Elections of 1959 raised in compelling form the question of the relationship between urban life and political radicalism; radical parties of both the left...

... in their own way, complement one another and should be used together. CHESTER S. CHARD The University of Wisconsin Decipherment of the Proto-Dravidian Inscriptions of the Indus Civilization: A First Announcement. BY ASKO PARPOLA, SEPPO KOSKENNIEMI, SIMO PARPOLA, and PENTTI AALTO. Copenhagen: The Scandinavian...

... and the Dravidian Aesthetic also contains ethnographic interviews and research, though they are presented sparingly. The focus is on history, linguistics, and the massive archive of recorded speeches from which Bate is able to detect and analyze overarching themes and tropes. The excitement and color of political...

...Chandra Mallampalli Languages and Nations: The Dravidian Proof in Colonial Madras . By Thomas R. Trautmann . Berkeley and Los Angeles : University of California Press , 2006 . 304 pp. $49.95 (cloth) . Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2008 2008...

...E. Annamalai A Dravidian Etymological Dictionary-Supplement . By T. Burrow and M. B. Emeneau . Oxford : Clarendon Press , 1968 . xi , 185 pp. Index. $13.25. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1969 1969 BOOK REVIEWS 875 A Dravidian Etymological Dictionary-Supplement...

... India: "The Dravidian Kinship Terminology as an Expression of Marriage" (1953), "Hierarchy and Marriage Alliance in South Indian Kinship" (1957), and "Nayar Marriages as Indian Facts" (1961). The other essays concern Australia; they are "The Kariera Kinship Vocabulary: Analysis" (1970) and "Descent...

... the incorporation of regional and folk elements. Without going into questions of pre-Vedic or Indus Valley cultures, or the problem of contributions by Munda, Austric, Dravidian, and Mongoloid, data can be found in Sanskrit literature which help to illuminate Hindu sociology, religion, and the arts during...

...-speaking caste—in 1949, when the post-war generation of Anglo-American anthropologists was undertaking fieldwork on Indian villages. He had been trained in indology, Sanskrit and Dravidian studies; reared in the heritage of French sociology descended from Emile Durkheim through Marcel Mauss; and influenced...

...Pamela Price Abstract From the 1920s to the late 1960s, Tamil nationalism in India was characterized by elements of radical innovation which made the Dravidian movement a mobilization for cultural revolution, in Tamil terms, as well as for the defense of Tamil interests vis-à-vis the central...

..., 1951 ), p. 649 s.v. “Dravidian factor.” 38 This resulted in what Edgerton has called Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit. 39 Kane P. V. , History of Dharmaśāstra , III ( Poona , 1946 ), 825 – 973 . 40 Renou L. , Religions of Ancient India ( London , 1953...

... megalithic culture, associated by virtually all who have studied it with Dravidian speakers, is much older than had been thought. The fact that ideograms of the Indus Valley culture appear as graffiti on pottery found in megalithic tombs (B. B. Lai, "From the Megalithic to the Harappan: Tracing Back...

... . Ezhuthachan K. N. 1975 . The History of the Grammatical Theories in Malayalam . Trivandrum, Kerala : Dravidian Linguistics Association . Foucault , Michel . 1972 . The Archaeology of Knowledge . Sheridan A. M. , trans. New York : Harper and Row . Foucault , Michel . 1983...

... it with Dravidian speakers, is much older than had been thought. The fact that ideograms of the Indus Valley culture appear as graffiti on pottery found in megalithic tombs (B. B. Lai, "From the Megalithic to the Harappan: Tracing Back the Graffiti on the Pottery," Ancient India, no. 6, i960, p. 1-24) takes...

... convincingly, pointing out that " . . . many Dravidian-type systems feature distinct spouse and sibling-in-law terms . . . so that it is apparent that in these systems too the cross-cousin kin types are the foci of consanguineal classes, not derivative members of affinal categories" ("Dravidian-Iroquois...

... the main body of its family of languages in northern India possibly as long as twenty-five hundred years ago isolated from its sister languages not only by the solitude of its island position but by a solid phalanx of Dravidian languages occupying southern India from its tip to the Deccan. ("Sinhala...

.... This monograph is a valuable contribution to the literature on Dravidian languages. Not only has Tyler employed the structuralist approach to provide an insightful grammatical analysis, but he has provided us with a description of a dialect not previously described, the Gommu Dialect of Koya...

... 1953 and 1970. The first three essays concern South India: "The Dravidian Kinship Terminology as an Expression of Marriage" (1953), "Hierarchy and Marriage Alliance in South Indian Kinship" (1957), and "Nayar Marriages as Indian Facts" (1961). The other essays concern Australia; they are "The Kariera...

... politics at national, regional, and local levels, as well as the structures, language, and limitations posed by liberal secular democracy. The nal three chapters focus on the political history of Tamil Nadu and the social legacy of the decentering Dravidian movement. This outline highlights a readily...

... is evident in virtually all aspects of the temple, where Tamil and Orissan influence are especially predominant. The architecture is a curious but not infelicitous combination of Orissan and Dravidian styles, a marriage so complete that the local people even today use a mixture of Dravidian and Orissan...

..., where Tamil and Orissan influence are especially predominant. The architecture is a curious but not infelicitous combination of Orissan and Dravidian styles, a marriage so complete that the local people even today use a mixture of Dravidian and Orissan terminologies to describe different structures...