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...Yelena Biberman Colonial Institutions and Civil War: Indirect Rule and Maoist Insurgency in India . By Shivaji Mukherjee . New York : Cambridge University Press , 2021 . 392 pp. ISBN: 9781108844994 . © 2023 Association for Asian Studies 2023 Colonial Institutions and Civil...

...John McLeod Indirect Rule in India: Residents and the Residency System 1764–1857 . By Michael H. Fisher . Delhi : Oxford University Press , 1991 . xv, 516 pp. $26.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1994 1994 BOOK REVIEWS SOUTH ASIA 251 find shaikhs...

... monopoly of the production and distribution of salt. The fourth and fifth categories were respectively the regular (or “native”) customs and certain miscellaneous indirect taxes. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1952 1952 1 Morse Hosea B. , The Trade...

... is the protagonist's homely, asexual, motherly confidante, her derivative construct—the menotogo of the protagonist—is often cast in an erotic light. In the four texts examined in this essay, menotogo valorize their erotic agencies to benefit their charges through sexual-affective labor or through an indirect method...

... through the performance of paramount power, demonstrated by its suppression of the 2008 protests, or it could be attributed to a form of indirect rule, by which local officials engage with local leaders to generate hegemonic consent. While both dynamics are present on the Tibetan plateau, ethnographic...

... on levels of peasant consumption in the region in that period. The final section considers three indirect indications of changes in economic welfare in Southeast Asia during the depression: Indian immigration and repatriation rates; the import level of cotton piece goods; and mortality rates. The author...

...Robert K. Sakai Abstract The Shimazu daimyo of Satsuma-han maintained indirect contact with the China mainland throughout most of the Tokugawa period. This contact was possible despite the seclusion policy of the Tokugawa government which prohibited Japanese from going abroad and the policy...

...Kang Chao Abstract The state of housing in a country has a direct impact on the level of public health, on the crime rate, and on many other social problems of importance. It also has an indirect effect on labor productivity in the economy through the general morale of workers. Practically all...

... to suggest that this earlier opposition expressed a fundamental economic principle: the distinction between castes who held direct or indirect rights in land and those who were primarily dependent on renumeration for specific professional services. This contrast was expressed symbolically by the use...

... for Asian Studies, Inc. 1994 1994 252 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES The heart of Indirect Rule in India is an account of the transformation of the Residents from commercial envoys to agents of British paramountcy, from the birth of the Residency system in 1764 to the revolt of 1857. Fisher describes how...

... has followed in the case of Khuldabad. Only then can old myths of India's "Muslim period" be discarded. RICHARD M. EATON University of Arizona Indirect Rule in India: Residents and the Residency System 1764 1857'. By MICHAEL H . FISHER. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1991. xv, 516 pp. $26.00...

... classes, and a contraction in public expenditure prompted by claims for state patronage by politically assertive groups. Since the political and economic costs to indirect taxes are considerably lower, the government is under pressure to increase indirect taxes to raise revenue. In the period immediately...

... and expenditure, estates and gifts, corporate income, and indirect taxes. The chapter on indirect taxes is particularly enlightening, since indirect taxes have steadily grown since the early 1950's and presently constitute seventy to seventy-five percent of all tax revenue in India. There are sources of revenue...

... goals of taxation. These are taxes on personal income, capital gains, agricultural income, wealth and expenditure, estates and gifts, corporate income, and indirect taxes. The chapter on indirect taxes is particularly enlightening, since indirect taxes have steadily grown since the early 1950's...

..., the Vietnamese have been dominated by the Chinese, the French, competing Vietnamese dynasties, and the present Communist government. Fearful of expressing opposition openly, writers have frequently resorted to indirect criticisms. In its style of attack on the present regime, How To Behave reflects...

... be accounted for by reference to the indirect consequences of various combinations of old and new elements in the transformed rural social structure established in the 1950s, and that the indirect effect of contemporary rural social structure can also help explain what has not changed. While their case-by-case...

...- Frustration" in J. K. Fairbank [ed Chinese pose of a/« is "to criticize by indirection" (p. 4), Thought and Institutions, 1957), is more in- the conclusion that "the reader has no doubt at clusive, and provides each page with half a dozen the end of the poem that Yang Hsiung dis- references. As H. H. Frankel...

... economic freedom were the guide lines. For Holland, Indonesia primarily represented a needed source of tropical produce at low cost, obtained through indirect rule. On the whole Furnivall regards Dutch indirect rule in Java as presenting a favorable contrast to British direct rule in Burma (p. 271). He...

... discourse is marked by a highly refined (J. alus) sense of indirectness and where texts often have what he describes elsewhere (1989:116-17) as "covert meanings." In Java, what is not said, or what is said only by implication, is often at least as important as what is said directly. There are linguistic...

... introduces Chilean fans' indirect translation of Hallyu material into Spanish via English translations from the original Korean in an effort to achieve a participatory culture despite the unavoidable lags and misunderstandings of this indirect type of translation. Chapters 6 and 7 turn their focus...