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... interpreted as evidence of a Buddhist reform or return to orthodoxy and portrayed against the background of Sinhalese society as a whole. In this essay I argue that the establishment of twenty-five such nikāyas in the Low Country of Sri Lanka can be better understood both as serving a variety of interests...

...Manuela Ciotti Abstract This article examines Dalit (ex-untouchable) and low-caste women activists within the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) in the north Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. Underrepresented in Indian political history, these women frequently portray political activities as seva or social...

...Frank F. Conlon Caste, Conflict and Ideology: Mahatma Jotirao Phule and Low-Caste Protest in Nineteenth-Century Western India . By Rosalind O'Hanlon xiv, 326 pp. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 1985 . Bibliographic Note, Bibliography, Glossary, Index. $44.50. Copyright ©...

... en Planologisch Instituut, Bijdragen tot de Sociale Geografie, No. 14), 1979 . vi, 201 pp. Bibliography, Appendixes, Tables. N.p. Urban Low-Income Housing and Development: A Case Study in Peninsular Malaysia . By Emiel A. Wegelin . Leiden : Martinus Nijhoff (Studies in Development...

...William Petersen Population Growth and Economic Development in Low-Income Countries: A Case Study of India's Prospects . By Ansley J. Coale and Edgar M. Hoover . Princeton : Princeton University Press , 1958 . xxi, 389 . $8.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc...

..., especially timber, firewood, and charcoal. Second, through an analysis of the wartime promotion of a “low temperature lifestyle,” it offers a thumbnail sketch of the lived experiences and corporeal consequences of state-led efforts to rationalize fuel consumption. Considered together, these lines of analysis...

... Gossamer, which so well fits in with the whole tenor of the book. School of Oriental and ARTHUR WALEY African Studies, London design and photos make a pleasant visual experience for the layman. A. FREUNDLICH The Lowe Art Gallery Forms in Japan. By KOJIRO YUICHIRO. Translated by KENNETH YASUDA. Photographs...

...D. A. Low Abstract As the study of the processes by which India and Pakistan achieved their independence unfolds further, it seems probable that the most fruitful advances will be made through studies of particular episodes and particular themes. In all this there is little fear that the national...

..., health, irrigation, or the role of the private service agencies. The lack of emphasis given to the role of the private sector in agro-business betrays the present plight of Indian agriculture and the ideological slant of planning in India in the 1970*5. India, as well as other low-income nations...

... of the globalized world available for readers to use (pp. 246–54). Printers and editors reused texts and images in order to cut costs, but these strategies also generated meaning. As other studies have shown, editors and illustrators migrated between publishing firms and lent prestige to low-end imprints (pp. 85–87...

... system of caste-Hindus and the attendant system of extreme disabilities enforced against the low castes collapsed in the early twentieth century. The social upheaval was greater than anywhere else in India. A déraciné generation of caste-Hindus was forced to seek remedies for-the disruption and misery...

... one—through time, and attempts to demonstrate the changing relationship of that system to Indian politics and society in general, and to the low-caste communities of India in particular. We select the low-caste untouchables because they represent an extreme challenge to the integrative capacity...

...). Rather, the slow rate of growth was due to the smallest number of children ever born to women in the village (mean of just over three), resulting from a high age at first birth (24.6 years) and a relatively low age at last birth (35–37 years). The low age at last birth, added to a statistically biased...

... and Eurasians who were writing in Malay at the time—developed a literary language from Low Malay that was primarily an oral language with many regional and social variants. Soon after this period, the Dutch (and many Eurasians and some Chinese) abandoned Malay as a literary language in preference for Dutch...