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Journal of Asian Studies (1961) 20 (2): 252.
Published: 01 February 1961
...J. Michael Mahar Indian Fiction in English . An Annotated Bibliography. By Dorothy M. Spencer . Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press , 1960 . South Asia Regional Studies, University of Pennsylvania. 98 . Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1961 1961 252...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1961) 21 (1): 114.
Published: 01 November 1961
...J. Michael Mahar Thakurs of the Sahyadri . By L. N. Chapekar . Bombay : Oxford University Press , 1960 . University of Bombay Publications, Sociology Series No. 5. xi, 227 . Illustrated, Glossary, Index. Rs. 22.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1961 1961 114...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1981) 41 (1): 189–190.
Published: 01 November 1981
...J. Michael Mahar BOOK REVIEWS SOUTH ASIA 189 it a valuable complement to other studies of contemporary Sri Lanka, and it should also repay the attention of those concerned with the relationship between welfare and economic growth in other Third World countries. JAMES BROW University of Texas...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1986) 45 (2): 269–292.
Published: 01 February 1986
...Jayashree B. Gokhale Abstract The conversion of the Mahars to Buddhism in October 1956 was an ambitious attempt to construct a new ideology fundamentally opposed to the traditional Hindu system of beliefs, which had been destructive for the individual psyches as well as for the collective existence...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1964) 23 (S1): 71–81.
Published: 01 June 1964
...Pauline Mahar Kolenda Abstract How do ordinary people of India adapt themselves to the Hindu theory of karma and rebirth? It is said that these concepts justify and reconcile Hindus to the inequalities of the caste system and that they result in fatalism and “other-worldiness.” These, in turn...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2001) 60 (2): 439–478.
Published: 01 May 2001
... . India Military Proceedings , December 1893 . Proceedings of a Committee Assembled at Mahabuleshvar to Report on the Re-organisation of the Bombay Army , 1892 . L/MIL/17/ 5/1687. India Office Library , London . Kamble Shivram Janba. 1922 b. Letter to Subhedar Radhuram, 111th Mahar Battalion...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2020) 79 (2): 303–334.
Published: 01 May 2020
... analysis of the graphic novel Bhimayana , which brings together key events from the life of B. R. Ambedkar—the architect of the Indian Constitution who was born into the “untouchable” Mahar caste—and the artwork of the Gond tribal artists Durgabai and Subhash Vyam. While there is considerable affinity...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1965) 24 (4): 711–712.
Published: 01 August 1965
..., A Critical Bibliography . By J. Michael Mahar . Tucson : University of Arizona Press , 1964 . 119 . Index, n.p. (paper) India . By Taya Zinkin . London : Oxford University Press , 1964 . 125 . Further Readings; Index, n.p. (paper) Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1965...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1964) 23 (S1): 3–4.
Published: 01 June 1964
..., Gerald D. Berreman, John Gumperz, Edward B. Harper, Edward J. Jay, Pauline Mahar Kolenda, William McCormack, J. Michael Mahar, David G. Mandelbaum, Gertrude Woodruff Marlowe, McKim Marriott, Vidya Ninas Misra, Karl Potter, William Rowe, J. F. Staal, Burton Stein, and Nur Yalman. I am particularly...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1969) 28 (3): 453–468.
Published: 01 May 1969
.... The British used this fact to argue against the recruitment of all Mahars, but the latter countered by pleading for separate regiments of Mahars, or for separate companies of Mahars attached to Muslim regiments. They expected fairer treatment from the Muslims than from their Hindu coreligionists. See...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1986) 45 (2): 219–221.
Published: 01 February 1986
... and political definitions in distinguishing crises from "normal" situations and in defining the quantity, timing, and recipients of relief. The Sociopolitical Effects of Ideological Change: The Buddhist Conversion of Maharashtrian Untouchables JAYASHREE B. GOKHALE Pages 269-292 The conversion of the Mahars...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1978) 37 (3): 545–546.
Published: 01 May 1978
... the collection is a useful contribution to the literature, reflecting various facets of the interaction of Hinduism, Buddhism, and Islam with the processes of social change. B. G. Gokhale's paper on Ambedkar, "Rebel against Hindu Tradition," emphasizes the Mahar leader's place as the first to articulate...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2002) 61 (1): 302–304.
Published: 01 February 2002
...? Though it was in no way as devastating as the Muslim-Hindu and Muslim-Sikh riots further north, the Hindu-Mahar riots of 1946, which Vasant Moon reminds us of, have more to tell us of India's subsequent history. Moon's Marathi title for his story, of growing up in a mid-century "untouchable" quarter...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1978) 37 (3): 546–547.
Published: 01 May 1978
... into another" the book contains one chapter on Islamic conversions in the pre-Mughal period; two on nineteenth- and twentieth-century Christian movements; one on recent Baha'i conversions in Malwa; one on the Buddhist movement among the Mahars; one on Hindu reconversions promoted by the Arya Samaj; and two...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2014) 73 (1): 276–278.
Published: 01 February 2014
... and outside the community. As Rao shows, untouchable Mahars in the beginning claimed a Kshatriya lineage (a Mahar military lineage) and were given other nomenclatures like Harijan, Depressed Classes, and Scheduled Castes, then finally emerged as Dalits—a radical confrontational identity. The book argues...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1965) 24 (4): 712–713.
Published: 01 August 1965
.... We are all in debt to Miss Diehl. The excellent critical bibliography of India by Dr. J. Michael Mahar is of value to specialist and to non-specialist alike. It is a remarkably painstaking, thorough and careful study. One knows how long the preparation of a well-edited and comprehensive bibliography...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1978) 37 (3): 544–545.
Published: 01 May 1978
... contribution to the literature, reflecting various facets of the interaction of Hinduism, Buddhism, and Islam with the processes of social change. B. G. Gokhale's paper on Ambedkar, "Rebel against Hindu Tradition," emphasizes the Mahar leader's place as the first to articulate the ancient grievances...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1974) 33 (2): 326–328.
Published: 01 February 1974
...V. S. Parthasarathy The Untouchables in Contemporary India . Edited By J. Michael Mahar . Tuscon : The University of Arizona Press , 1972 . xxxii, 496 pp. Maps, Charts, Illustrations, Bibliography, Index. $6.95 (paperback). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1974...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2001) 60 (2): 323–327.
Published: 01 May 2001
... the development of science and its close relationship to imperial venture in the late nineteeth century, a relationship too often overlooked by historians. PHILIP CONSTABLE'S article examines the exclusion of Mang and Mahar (dalit, or "untouchable") soldiers from the Bombay Army and demonstrates...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2011) 70 (4): 1183–1185.
Published: 01 November 2011
.... C. Dube, examining not only his scholarship in English but also his commentaries that were published in Hindi. In what is the most suggestive discussion of the volume, Dube introduces the art of Savindra Sawarkar, a convert to Buddhism from the untouchable Mahar caste in Nagpur. One of Sawarkar's...