... of these two 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...

...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 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 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 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). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2002 2002 BOOK REVIEWS SOUTH ASIA 755 now codified...

...Manu Bhagavav B O O K R E V I E W S S O U T H A S I A 1189 classroom, it will also appeal to a wide readership interested in the dynamism of contemporary Su sm in South Asia and beyond. ROBERT ROZEHNAL Lehigh University Decentring the Indian Nation. Edited by ANDREW WYATT and JOHN ZAVOS. London...

...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 Amritsar 1919: An Empire of Fear and the Making of a Massacre . By Kim A. Wagner . New Haven, Conn. : Yale University Press , 2019 . xxvi, 325 pp. ISBN: 9780300200355 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2020 2020 The story of the Amritsar...

... on inheritance and partition. 7 Dhammavilasa , IV. II. 6 Wagaru , V.64. 5 Dhammavilasa , XII.6; Manu , VII.360, 361. Dhammavilasa , XII.2; Manu , VIII.28, 374–78. Dhammavilasa , XII.25; Manu , VIII.369–70. 4 “A principal with interest reaching double the amount”; see...

... 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...

.... According to McLennan ( 1865 , 144–45), Hindu endogamy was a later stage of Indian civilizational development, in which the “advanced” nature of caste endogamy was proven in the textual evidence of The Laws of Manu . In McLennan's theory, the control of girls and women through the regulation of female...

... 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, by the contention that Dharmaśāstra had always...

... the cultural construction of such wartime appropriations, let us begin with the dharmasdstra of Manu (MS) and his ninth-century Kashmiri commentator, Medhatithi (MSBh) (Jolly 1887; Buhler [1886] 1984; Kevalananda and Gharpure 1958; Jha 1920-26). In his discussion of proper royal conduct, Manu is concerned...

..., 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...

.... 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...

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