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... in these literatures (Alter 1997; Benton 2006; Dimock 1966; Doniger 1973; Doniger and Kakar 2002; Kakar 1989; Kakar and Ross 1986; Ramanujan 1981; Ramanujan, Rao, and Shulman 1994; Stoler Miller 1977; Sweet 2002; Wujastyk 2005, 2009; Zysk 2002). The subcontinent's textual cultures, they argue, interrogate Freudian...

...Daniel J. Meckel Mad and Divine: Spirit and Psyche in the Modern World . By Sudhir Kakar . Chicago and London : The University of Chicago Press , 2009 . 192 pp. $24.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2011 2011 In this volume, Sudhir Kakar once...

...Christine Noelle-Karimi A Political and Diplomatic History of Afghanistan, 1863–1901 . By M. Hassan Kakar . Leiden : Brill , 2006 . 259 pp. $111.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2009 2009 M. Hassan Kakar has distinguished himself by two...

...M. Kaye Kerr The Inner World: A Psycho-analytic Study of Childhood and Society in India . By Sudhir Kakar . Delhi : Oxford University Press , 1978 . 188 pp. Notes and References, Bibliography, Index. $9.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1979 1979 BOOK REVIEWS...

...Peter Claus Shamans, Mystics, and Doctors: A Psychoanalytic Inquiry into India and Its Healing Traditions . By Sudhir Kakar . New York : Alfred A. Knopf , 1982 . x, 306 pp. Note, Index. $15. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1984 1984 BOOK REVIEWS SOUTH ASIA 573...

...Roger Jeffery Primary Health Care and Traditional Practitioners . By D. N. Kakar . New Delhi : Sterling Publishers , 1988 . xiv, 195 pp. Rs 125.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1990 1990 BOOK REVIEWS SOUTH ASIA 183 Much anthropological literature...

...Jeanne Marecek The Analyst and the Mystic: Psychoanalytic Reflections on Religion and Mysticism . By Sudhir Kakar . Chicago : The University of Chicago Press , 1991 . xi, 83 pp. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1994 1994 BOOK REVIEWS SOUTH ASIA 971 The Analyst...

... of Ayurvedic and Unani Systems of Medicine; Kakar excludes an estimated six hundred others in the block who are part-time or not registered. Of the sixty-four, nine have qualifications in an Indian system of medicine; ten have had some formal training; and the remaining forty-five have no more than...

... in the title of one of the volumes indicates, translations from the original French are often wooden. J O H N A. COLEMAN, S. J. Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley Shamans, Mystics, and Doctors: A Psychoanalytic Inquiry into India and Its Healing Traditions. By SUDHIR KAKAR. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1982. x...

... JUERGENSMEYER Graduate Theological Union and University ofCalifornia, Berkeley The Inner World: A Psycho-analytic Study of Childhood and Society in India. By SUDHIR KAKAR. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1978. 188 pp. Notes and References, Bibliography, Index. $9.50. It has been said that myth is the dream...

... study by Sudhir Kakar of an Indian woman seeking an indigenous form of psychotherapy at a temple, is entertaining, as Kakar's writings always are. Unfortunately, Kakar fails to draw together the issues that he raises in this chapter, and it remains theoretically diffuse, particularly when he leaps back...

...E. Valentine Daniel The Colors of Violence: Cultural Identities, Religion, and Conflict . By Sudhir Kakar . Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 1996 . xiv, 217 pp. $42.00 (cloth); $14.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1997 1997 1132 THE JOURNAL...

... : Manchester University Press . Sudhir Kakar . 1981 . The Inner World: A Psycho-analytic Study of Childhood and Society in India . Delhi : Oxford University Press . Sudhir Kakar . 1982 . Shamans, Mystics and Doctors: A Psychological Inquiry into India and its Healing Traditions . Delhi...

... law and order removes the fear of judicial retribution. Still others have argued that humans simply lose their ordinary individuality and moral qualms in the riot context. For example, Sudhir Kakar has suggested that the riot “crowd's assault on the sense of individuality, its invitation to transcend...

... . Gangadhar D. A. 1984 . Mahatma Gandhi's Philosophy of Brahmacharya . Delhi : ISPCK . Hare William Loftus. 1926 . “Generation and Regeneration.” The Open Court , March. Kakar Sudhir. 1990 . Intimate Relations: Exploring Indian Sexuality . Chicago : University of Chicago Press...

... Hallstrom, as well as Sudhir Kakar's depiction of his visit to a Radhasoami satsang. In the caste section, John Stratton Hawley (with Mark Juergensmeyer) chronicles the Dalit poet Ravidas and his followers, and Lalitambika Antarjanam's story “A Brahmin Woman” illustrates the struggles of a Nambudiri...

... lapses to explain are the authors whose book chapters and articles are cited but not their books. Examples include the two substantial histories by Hasan Kakar on the period of Amir Abdur Rahman and Schuyler Jones's Men of Influence in Nuristan (1974). Similarly, the often-cited volume Revolutions...

... in Japan. They make no mention, however, of why Islamic or other Asian contributions to psychology were not included. In view of the editors' orientation, it is strange that they do not mention the work of Ashis Nandy, a pioneer critic of Western psychology, or of Sudhir Kakar, who made indigenous South...

... in detailed breakdowns of sequences and characters, and demonstrates how an understanding of such states of rasa are integral to a comprehension of Ray's early cinematic work. 1064 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES In the middle chapters, Cooper employs the work of Indian psychoanalyst Sudhir Kakar to explore...

... conclusions are close to those of Jacques Lacan and Sudhir Kakar, both of whom reject the notion that the mystical can be reduced to sexuality. 532 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES Kripal's refusal to reduce the mystical to the sexual allows him to take seriously Bengali constructions of Hindu Tantra as another...