...Sanjay Joshi Abstract Through the historicization of one episode, this essay addresses a variety of questions related to class, caste, gender, religion, and social life as well as cultural attitudes in Kumaon between the mid-nineteenth and mid-twentieth centuries. The politics of naming—who among...

...Irene Joshi The Sari: Styles, Patterns, History, Techniques . By Linda Lynton . Photographs by Sanjay K. Singh. New York : Harry N. Abrams , 1995 . 206 photographs. 208 pp. $49.95 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1997 1997 532 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN...

...Barbara R. Joshi Political Identity in South Asia . Edited by David Taylor and Malcolm Yapp . London : Curzon Press ; Atlantic Highlands, N.J.: Humanities Press (University of London, School of Oriental and African Studies: Collected Papers on South Asia, No. 2), 1979 . xii, 266 pp...

...Barbara R. Joshi Halfway to Equality . By Partap C. Aggarwal . New Delhi : Manohar , 1983 . 279 pp. Index. $20. (Distributed in U.S. by South Asia Books, Columbia, Mo.) Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1985 1985 628 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES there is no evidence...

...Sanjay Joshi Some readers might be disappointed at not learning more about Manto the brother, the son, the husband, or the father. Others might ask for more about Manto's reasons for moving to Pakistan, and his ambiguous relationship with India and the Pakistani state after the move, or indeed...

...Sanjay Joshi Subaltern Studies 11: Community, Gender, and Violence . Edited by Partha Chatterjee and Pradeep Jeganathan . London : Hurst , 2000 . viii, 347 pp. $52.25 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2003 2003 BOOK REVIEWS SOUTH ASIA 1273 been...

...Sanjay Joshi Men, Women, and Domestics: Articulating Middle-Class Identity in Colonial Bengal . By Swapna M. Banerjee . New Delhi : Oxford University Press , 2004 . xii , 247 pp. $45.00/545 Rs (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2007 2007 Swapna M...

...Ravinder Joshi Human Rights in India: Historical, Social, and Political Perspectives . Edited by Chiranjivi J. Nirmal . New Delhi : Oxford University Press , 2000 . 333 pp. $27.95 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2002 2002 BOOK REVIEWS SOUTH ASIA 305...

...Rochona Majumdar Fractured Modernity: Making of a Middle Class in Colonial North India . By Sanjay Joshi . New Delhi : Oxford University Press , 2001 . ix , 209 pp. $45.00 (cloth); 2005, $19.95 (paper). Copyright © Association for Asian Studies 2006 2006 440 T H E J O U R N A L...

...Sumit Ganguly Why India Matters . By Maya Chadda . Boulder, Colo. : Lynne Rienner Publishers , 2014 . 289 pp. ISBN: 9781626370388 (cloth, also available in paper). India's Long Road: The Search for Prosperity . By Vijay Joshi . New York : Oxford University Press , 2017 . 360...

...Reeve Vanneman Surplus Labour and the City: A Study of Bombay . By Heather and Vijay Joshi . Delhi : Oxford University Press , 1976 . xii, 189 pp. Index. Rs. 45.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1979 1979 4°2 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES history, has also...

...Anand Parappadi Krishnan Understanding the India-China Border: The Enduring Threat of War in High Himalaya . By Manoj Joshi . London : Hurst , 2022 . i–xxii, 289 pp. ISBN: 9781787385405 . © 2024 Association for Asian Studies 2024 Book Reviews Transnational and Comparative...

... of Names, Index of Place Names, Map. N.p. The Afghan Nobility and the Mughals, 1526–1707 . By Rita Joshi . Delhi : Vikas Publishing House Pvt. , 1985 . x, 246 pp. Appendixes, Bibliography, Index. $32.50. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1987 1987 174 JOURNAL OF ASIAN...

...R. S. Khare In Another Country: Colonialism, Culture, and the English Novel in India . By Priya Joshi . New York : Columbia University Press , 2002 . 368 pp. $62.00 (cloth); $23.50 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2003 2003 1280 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN...

...Michelle Maskiell Narrowing the Gender Gap . By Geeta Somjee . New York : St. Martin's Press , 1989 . xvi, 155 pp. $45.00. Daughters of Independence: Gender, Caste and Class in India . Joanna Liddle and Rama Joshi . New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press...

...Norman G. Barrier Lala Lajpat Rai Writings and Speeches . Volume One 1888–1919. Edited by Vijaya Chandra Joshi . Delhi : University Publishers , 1966 . lxiv, 423 pp. Notes, Biographical Notes, Index. Rs. 25.00. Lala Lajpat Rai Writings and Speeches . Volume Two 1920–1928. Edited...

... the background data for a potentially grim scenario in some contemporary overseas South Asian communities. BRUCE LA BRACK University ofthe Pacific Surplus Labour and the City: A Study of Bombay. By HEATHER and VIJAY JOSHI. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1976. xii, 189 pp. Index. Rs. 45.00. Split labor markets...

... with their ongoing dilemmas of caste and community. GAIL OMVEDT District Sangli, Maharashtra Fractured Modernity: Making of a Middle Class in Colonial North India. By SANJAY JOSHI. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2001. ix, 209 pp. $45.00 (cloth); 2005, $19.95 (paper). In his lucidly written book, Sanjay Joshi...

...Jayashree Gokhale Untouchable! Voices of the Dalit Liberation Movement . Edited by Barbara R. Joshi . London : Zed Books , 1986 . ix, 166 pp. Tables, Photographs, Bibliography. £18.95 (cloth); £6.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1987 1987 BOOK REVIEWS...

...Rishikesh Shaha Democratic Innovations in Nepal: A Case Study of Political Acculturation . By Bhuwan Lal Joshi and Leo E. Rose . Berkeley, California : University of California Press , 1966 . xvi, 551 pp. Notes, Maps, Bibliography, Glossary, Index. $10.75. Copyright ©...