...Ronald Inden Bhāruci's Commentary on the Manusmṛti (The Manu-Śāstra-Vivaraṇa, Books 6–12) . Edited, translated, and annotated by J. Duncan M. Derrett . Wiesbaden : Franz Steiner Verlag (Schriftenreihe des Südasien-Instituts der Universität Heidelberg, Band 18), 1975 . Vol. I, The Text...

...Mikael Aktor Manu's Code of Law: A Critical Edition and Translation of the Mānava-Dharmaśāstra . By Patrick Olivelle . Oxford and New York : Oxford University Press , 2005 . x , 1131 pp. $99.00 (cloth). Copyright © Association for Asian Studies 2006 2006 850 T H E J O U R N A L...

...Manu Bhagavan Amritsar 1919 , in short, is a remarkable achievement. It takes a well-known episode and, through meticulous scholarship, upends our understandings. This is the new, definitive account of Jallianwala Bagh. Amritsar 1919: An Empire of Fear and the Making of a Massacre...

...Manu Bhagavav Copyright © Association for Asian Studies 2004 2004 Decentring the Indian Nation . Edited by Andrew Wyatt and John Zavos . London and Portland, Ore. : Frank Cass/ISBS , 2003 . 144 pp. $26.50 (paper). B O O K R E V I E W S S O U T H A S I A 1189 classroom...

...Manu Bhagavan Abstract In the early twentieth century, Hindutva, or Hindu nationalism, was a philosophy premised on exclusivist notions of “nation-ness” and “nation-state-ness.” India, proponents claimed, had since the earliest times been the pitrabhumi and the punyabhumi of Hindus—their fatherland...

...Manu Bhagavan The Passing of Patrimonialism: Politics and Political Culture in Hyderabad, 1911–1948 . By Margrit Pernau . Delhi : Manohar , 2000 . x, 395 pp. Rs. 700. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2001 2001 586 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES structure...

...Manu Bhagavan Abstract In recent analyses of nationalism in colonial South Asia, Partha Chatterjee and Tanika Sarkar, among others, have argued that as a result of colonial domination in the “public sphere”—the realm of the state and civil society—Indian male nationalists deployed the “private...

...Manu Bhagavan Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2002 2002 Lessons from Schools: The History of Education in Banaras . By Nita Kumar . New Delhi : Sage Publications , 2000 . 232 pp. $45.00 (cloth); $22.95 (paper). BOOK REVIEWS SOUTH ASIA 755 now codified...

... Forchhammer (n. 2 above), p. 58. 16 On this general question see Lingat Robert , “ The Buddhist Manu or the Propagation of Hindu Law in Hinayanist Indochina ,” Annals of the Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute , XXX ( 1949 ), pp. 286 –88 . 15 Furnivall J. S. , “ Manu...

... publications, and two complementary goals toward which scholarly work can strive. MICHAEL W. MEISTER University ofPennsylvania Bharuci's Commentary on the Manusmrti (The Manu-Sastra-Vivarana, Books 6- 12). EDITED, TRANSLATED, AND ANNO- TATED BY J. DUNCAN M. DERRETT. Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag...

... on the Manusmrti (The Manu-Sastra-Vivarana, Books 6- 12). EDITED, TRANSLATED, AND ANNO- TATED BY J. DUNCAN M. DERRETT. Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag (Schriftenreihe des Siidasien-Instituts der Universitat Heidelberg, Band 18), 1975. Vol. I, The Text: xxiv, 316 pp., Appendixes, Indexes; Vol. II, The Translations...

... of Manu, as Ambedkar so strongly urges us to do? It requires a critical reassessment of the foundational disciplines, frameworks, and concepts that have come to organize how we study South Asian societies. It mandates further reflection on Ambedkar's insistence on the historical, sociological...

... to what were understood as the foundational texts. The authors note that British judicial use of Manu and other Dharmaśāstra literature “showcased and privileged” (Rocher, p. 81) these texts, especially Manu, along with their patriarchal, high-caste agenda. This reality is nuanced, however...

.... Breckenridge Carol Appadurai . 1977 . “ From Protector to Litigant— Changing Relations Between Hindu Temples and the Raja of Ramnad .” Indian Economic and Social History Review 14 : 75 – 106 . Buhler Georg , trans. [1886] 1984 . The Laws of Manu . Sacred Books of the East, vol. 25. Delhi...

.... That the four lesser forms of marriage do not involve change of the bride's gotra, according to the Garuda Purdna, tends to show that they are not Indo-European forms, and that Indo-European marriage is viewed as the gift of a bride requiring the change of her family or clan name. When, however, Manu states...

..., tends to show that they are not Indo-European forms, and that Indo-European marriage is viewed as the gift of a bride requiring the change of her family or clan name. When, however, Manu states that one may not marry the sagotra of one's mother, we see that the mother was nevertheless regarded...

...Tithi Bhattacharya Copyright © Association for Asian Studies 2005 2005 Producing India: From Colonial Economy to National Space . By Manu Goswami . Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 2004 . xi , 401 pp. $50.00 (cloth). B O O K R E V I E W S S O U T H A S I A 223 valued...