... difficult and anomalous when the culture, at different levels, not only permits oppositions, but simultaneously sanctions them. The data on meat-eating among the Kanya-Kubja brahmans of Katyayan gotra (primarily an exogamous group composed of several lineages) present this type of problem to the social...

...J. H. Broomfield The Changing Brahmans: Associations and Elites among the Kanya-Kubjas of North India . By R. S. Khare . Chicago : The University of Chicago Press , 1970 . xxii, 251 pp. Appendixes, Glossary, References, Index, $11.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies...

... empirical evidence for such observations, see Khare R. S. The Changing Brahmans ( Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 1970 ) ; and “One Hundred Years of Occupational Modernization among the Kanya-Kubja Brahman,” paper presented in the Conference on Occupational Cultures in Changing...

... patterns" (p. 3), he has takers, and political charlatans? And if human made a meticulous study of 182 families of nature is at work here, as elsewhere, what is the prestigious Kanya-Kubja Brahman caste of the role of caste sabhas, or less formal struc- Utter Pradesh. His particular interest is the tures...

... is defiled and subservient to the right." ALAN R. BEALS University of California, Riverside The Changing Brahmans: Associations and Elites among the Kanya-Kubjas of North India. BY R. S. KHARE. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1970. xxii, 251 pp. Appendixes, Glossary, References, Index, $11.00...

... studies of the cultural meaning of food preparation. BOOK REVIEWS 771 Both are based on Khare's fieldwork with necessity of protecting the process of its prepa- Kanya-Kubja Brahmins in the Lucknow-Rai Ba- ration. Conversely, pakka food though not reli region of Uttar Pradesh, but their method- necessarily...

... and with the encounter between Kubja the hunchback and Krsna; the final chapter, which Masson seems to regard as the culmination of his efforts in this field, is entitled "Yogic Powers and Symptom-Formation." Masson often works with materials that are not generally familiar, and his discussions seem to focus on specific...

... here. In this paper, transliteration of Hindi-Urdu terms omits diacriticals and uses English plurals and possessives. 2 Khare R. S. , “ Home and Office: Some Trends of Modernization Among the Kanya-Kubja Brahmans ,” Comparative Studies in Society and History , Vol. XIII , No. 2...

... are in the case of the "oceanic" imagery of waves and dissolution. Other chapters deal with "enchanted forests" in the Rdmdyana and with the encounter between Kubja the hunchback and Krsna; the final chapter, which Masson seems to regard as the culmination of his efforts in this field, is entitled "Yogic Powers...

... to the Dance-Drama of Kerala [DARIUS L. SWANN] 980 KALIDASA, The Divine Marriage [LUDO ROCHER] 210 KARVE, Hindu Society: An Interpretation [PAULINE KOLENDA] 700 KHARE, The Changing Brahmans: Associations and Elites Among the Kanya-Kubjas of North India [ j . H. BROOMFIELD] KUMAR, Essays on Gandhian Politics...

.... Upper Mahasu and Kinnar Himalaya: folklore and religion. UA 12 no. 4 (1960), 370-376. KERKETTA, KUSHAL. Rice beer and the Oraon culture: a preliminary observation. Journal of social research 3 (Mar. 1960), 62-67. KHARE, R. S. The Kanya-Kubja Brahmins and their caste organization. SWJA 16 (Autumn 1960...