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...Rachel Sturman Images of Women in Maharashtrian Society . Edited by Anne Feldhaus . Albany : State University of New York Press , 1998 . xii, 286 pp. $24.95 (paper). Home, Family, and Kinship in Maharashtra . Edited by Irina Glushkova and Rajendra Vora . Delhi : Oxford...

..., and poignant, and they invite the reader into a deepened appreciation for the complexity and depth of South Indian folk culture. Every library should have it. FRED W. CLOTHEY University of Pittsburgh Men to Bombay, Women at Home: Urban Influence on Sugao Village, Deccan Maharashtra, India, 1943-1982...

...Frank F. Conlon Nineteenth Century History of Maharashtra. Volume I . B. R. Sunthankar . Pune : Shubhada-Saraswat Prakashan , 1988 . xxii, 668 pp. Rs. 250. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1990 1990 688 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES instigators of radical change...

...Gail Omvedt Elite Pluralism and Class Rule: Political Development in Maharashtra, India . By Jayant Lele . Toronto : University of Toronto Press , 1981 . xxxvi , 263 pp. N.p. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1983 1983 438 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES Elite Pluralism...

...Gregory C. Kozlowski The Devs of Cincvad, A Lineage and the State in Maharashtra . By Laurence W. Preston . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 1989 . xii , 273 pp. $49.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1991 1991 BOOK REVIEWS SOUTH ASIA 191 from...

... of the Soviet Union, the future of Indo-Soviet trade and technology transfers has been placed in considerable doubt. SUMIT GANGULY Hunter College, City University of New York Dalit Panther Movement in Maharashtra: A Sociological Appraisal. By LATA MURUGKAR. Bombay: Popular Prakashan, 1991. xii, 264 pp. Rs...

...Paul B. Courtright Water and Womanhood: Religious Meanings of Rivers in Maharashtra . By Anne Feldhaus . New York : Oxford University Press , 1995 . viii, 250 pp. $49.00 (cloth); $18.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1997 1997 812 THE JOURNAL...

...Frank F. Conlon Maharashtra and the Marathas, Their History and Culture: A Bibliographic Guide to Western Language Materials . By Datta Shankarrao Kharbas . Boston : G. K. Hall (Series Seventy), 1975 . xxi, 642 pp. Index. $32.00 Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1977...

...Narendra K. Wagle Maharashtra in the Age of Shivaji . By A. R. Kulkarni . Poona : Deshmukh & Co. , 1969 . xxiii, 308 pp. Map, Appendices, Bibliography, Glossary, Index, n.p.l. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1973 1973 520 of his study of a changing village...

...Gopal S. Kulkarni Second Maharashtra By 2005: A Study in Futurology . By Tata Economic Consultancy Services . Bombay : Popular Prakashan , 1977 . xiv, 527 pp. Tables, Notes, Graphs. Rs. 100. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1979 1979 8 2 0 JOURNAL OF ASIAN...

...Frank F. Conlon Images of Maharashtra: A Regional Profile of India . Edited by N. K. Wagle . London : Curzon Press , 1980 . viii , 151 pp. $10.50 (paper). (Distributed by Humanities Press, Atlantic Highlands, N.J.) Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1982 1982 BOOK...

...Joseph E. Schwartzberg Maharashtra—Land and Its People . By I. Karve . Bombay : Directorate of Government Printing, Stationery and Publications, Maharashtra State , 1968 . viii, 201 pp. Maps, Graphs, Bibliography, Index. Rs. 4.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc...

...John E. Brush Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1971 1971 Regional Planning for Social Facilities: An Examination of Central Place Concepts and Their Application. A Case Study of Eastern Maharashtra . By Sudhir Wanmali . Hyderabad : National Institute of Community...

...D. W. Attwood Rural Change in Maharashtra: An Analytical Study of Change in Six Villages in Konkan . By S. D. Punekar and Alka R. Golwalkar . Bombay : Popular Prakashan , 1973 . vii, 138 pp. Tables, Notes, Index. Rs. 25.00 (Dist. by InterCulture Associates, $8.50) Copyright ©...

...Ellen M. Gumperz Progress of Education in Rural Maharashtra: Post-Independence Period . By A. R. Kamat . New York : Asia Publishing House , 1968 (for the Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics), xi, 348 pp. Tables, Map, Appendices, Index, n.p. Copyright © The Association...

... 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...

...Ravinder Kumar Abstract The Deccan Riots of 1875 highlight the social transformations brought about in rural Maharashtra in western India during the first five decades of British rule. The riots are of special interest to the social historian since they hinged upon relations between two important...

...Robert M. Hayden Abstract The standard view of excommunication as severe, unusual punishment in India is shown to be inaccurate regarding a caste in Maharashtra. An alternative concept, centering on suspension from caste as an inevitable response to the pollution always incurred with any violation...

.... British rule in Maharashtra had been erected on the ruins of the Maratha confederation. The legacy of independent Hindu rule lived on after 1818, although civil disturbances in following years sometimes bore little relation to the change of rulers. Spasmodically from 1818 to 1857 a series of minor revolts...

... research touched two of her basic interests: the area of Maharashtra in India and the structure of nineteenth century modernization. A planned study of communications systems was frustrated by her illness and by the paucity of local records. However, she left a number of studies which reveal a fine...