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

...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...

...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...

...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...

...Frank J. Korom A Portrait of the Hindus: Balthazar Solvyns and the European Image of India, 1760–1824 . By Robert L. Hardgrave Jr. New York : Oxford University Press , 2004 . 568 pp. $99.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2007 2007 Balthazar...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...). 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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...Robert W. Hefner 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. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1994 1994...

... 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...

...Royal W. Weiler Hindu Polytheism . By Alain Daniélou . New York : Pantheon Books , 1964 . xxxi, 537 . Appendix; Bibliography; Plates. $8.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1965 1965 BOOK REVIEWS 715 ond paper suggests a progressive land tax, based on size...

...Richard L. Park The Indian Heritage . By Humayun Kabir . Bombay : Asia Publishing House , third (rev. and enl.) ed., 1955 . xi, 170 . $1.10. Hindu Society at Cross Roads . By K. M. Panikkar . Bombay : Asia Publishing House , 1955 . 102 . $.95. Copyright © The Association...

...Chad M. Bauman Abstract While Hindu-Muslim violence in India has received a great deal of scholarly attention, Hindu-Christian violence has not. This article seeks to contribute to the analysis of Hindu-Christian violence, and to elucidate the curious alliance, in that violence, of largely upper...