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...Dennis Dalton Hindus of the Himalayas . By Gerald D. Berreman . Berkeley and Los Angeles : University of California Press , 1963 . x , 430 . Bibliography; Appendices; Maps. $8.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1963 1963 BOOK REVIEWS 145 drawal of effective...

...Agehananda Bharati Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1969 1969 Ritual Songs and Folksongs of the Hindus of Surinam . By U. Arya . Leiden : E. J. Brill , 1968 . ix , 178 pp. Bibliography, Index. 36 gld. BOOK REVIEWS 869 not wholly succeeed. Pronouncing the magic word...

...Manish Kumar Thakur Ethnic Conflict and Civic Life: Hindus and Muslims in India . By Ashutosh Varshney . New Haven, Conn. : Yale University Press , 2002 . xi , 382 pp. $50.00 (cloth); $19.95 (paper). Copyright © Association for Asian Studies 2006 2006 B O O K R E V I E W S S O...

...Lelah Dushkin Ethnic Conflict and Civic Life: Hindus and Muslims in India . By Ashutosh Varshney . New Haven : Yale University Press , 2002 . ix, 382 pp. $45.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2003 2003 BOOK REVIEWS SOUTH ASIA 991 The variety...

... by “Dresses of Hindu Men and Hindu Women,” “Servants of the European Household in Calcutta (Kolkata),” “Fakirs and Religious Mendicants,” “Musical Instruments,” “Festivals and Ceremonies,” “Sati,” “Modes of Smoking,” “Modes of Conveyance,” “Boats of Bengal,” “Natural History: Plants and Animals,” and finally...

...Lise McKean Religious Nationalism: Hindus and Muslims in India . By Peter van der Veer . Berkeley : University of California Press , 1994 . xvi, 247 pp. $40.00 (cloth); $15.00 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1994 1994 1308 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES...

...Gavin Flood Hindus: Their Religious Beliefs and Practices . By Julius Lipner . London and New York : Routledge , 1998 . xiii, 375 pp. $27.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2002 2002 BOOK REVIEWS SOUTH ASIA 1417 versus the Thakurs, whose reverence...

...George W. Spencer Trade and Statecraft in the Age of the Cōḻas . By Kenneth R. Hall . New Delhi : Abhinav Publications , 1980 . 212 pp. Appendixes, Bibliography, Inde. $16 (cloth). Culture and Political-Military Behavior: The Hindus in Pre-Modern India . By Joel Larus . Columbia...

...Eric J. Rothgery All of this, for Powers, sets the scene for two camps in twentieth-century Indian communal politics: (1) those nationalists—among them Hindus such as Advani and Muslims such as Jinnah—who shaped perceived age-old ineluctable differences into partition politics, or (2) those...

...). The Eternal Food: Gastronomic Ideas and Experiences of Hindus and Buddhists . Edited by R. S. Khare . Albany : State University of New York , 1992 . xv, 273 pp. $54.50 (cloth); $17.95 (paper). Food From the Mouth of Krishna: Feasts and Festivities in a North Indian Pilgrimage Centre . By Paul M...

... of the worst in India since partition in 1947, drew responses of horror from across India and the world. Although the assault on Muslims followed an apparent (all the facts will never be known) assault on Hindu pilgrims travelling through the railway station at Godhra, in eastern Gujarat, in which fifty-nine...

...Leela Fernandes Hindu Wife, Hindu Nation: Community, Religion, and Cultural Nationalism . By Tanika Sarkar . London : Hurst , 2001 . viii , 290 pp. £25.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2003 2003 BOOK REVIEWS SOUTH ASIA 683 struggles to achieve...

...Manu Bhagavan Abstract In the early twentieth century, Hindutva, or Hindu nationalism, was a philosophy premised on exclusivist notions of “nation-ness” and “nation-state-ness.” India, proponents claimed, had since the earliest times been the pitrabhumi and the punyabhumi of Hindus—their fatherland...

...Vasudha Narayanan Hindu Goddesses: Visions of the Divine Feminine in the Hindu Religious Tradition . By David Kinsley . Berkeley and Los Angeles : University of California Press , 1986 . viii, 281 pp. Appendix, Notes, Bibliography, Index. $35. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies...

...Robert W. Hefner Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1994 1994 The Struggle of the Hindu Balinese Intellectuals: Developments in Modern Hindu Thinking in Independent Indonesia . By Frederick Lambertus Bakker . Amsterdam : Vrije University Press , 1993 . 389 pp...

...Phillip B. Wagoner Abstract When Robert Sewell inaugurated the modern study of the South Indian state of Vijayanagara with his classic A Forgotten Empire (1900), he characterized the state as “a Hindu bulwark against Muhammadan conquests” (Sewell [1900] 1962, 1), thereby formulating one...

...John Stratton Hawley Kabir: The Apostle of Hindu-Muslim Unity: Interaction of Hindu-Muslim Ideas in the Formation of the Bhakti Movement with Special Reference to Kabīr, the Bhakta . By Muhammad Hedayetullah , Delhi : Motilal Banarsidass , 1977 . xxiv, 320 pp. Notes, Bibliography. Rs...

...Ashutosh Varshney Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1998 1998 Divine Enterprise: Gurus and the Hindu Nationalist Movement . By Lise Mckean . Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 1996 . xviii, 361 pp. $60.00 (cloth); $21.95 (paper). BOOK REVIEWS SOUTH ASIA 583...

...Phillip B. Wagoner The Hungry God: Hindu Tales of Filicide and Devotion . By David Shulman . Chicago : The University of Chicago Press , 1993 . x, 157 pp. $27.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1995 1995 248 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES repeating...

...Pauline Mahar Kolenda Abstract How do ordinary people of India adapt themselves to the Hindu theory of karma and rebirth? It is said that these concepts justify and reconcile Hindus to the inequalities of the caste system and that they result in fatalism and “other-worldiness.” These, in turn...