...Ronald Inden Mitra-Varuṇa: An Essay on Two Indo-European Representations of Sovereignty . By Georges Dumézil . Translated by Derek Coltman . New York : Zone Books , 1988 . 189 pp. $21.95. The Destiny of a King . By Georges Dumézil . Translated by Alf Hiltebeitel . Chicago...

...Durba Mitra Abstract This essay traces the colonial origins of the concept of endogamy and its history as a foundational idea in the modern study of society in South Asia. The history of the concept of endogamy reveals how the control of female sexuality shaped the overlapping fields of Indology...

...Ashok Mitra India's Economic Development and International Economic Relations . By Mohd. Shabbir Khan , New York : Asia Publishing House , 1961 . 163 . Tables, Index. $5.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1962 1962 BOOK REVIEWS 579 sources or basis...

...Durba Mitra Sexuality Studies . Edited by Sanjay Srivastava . New Delhi : Oxford University Press , 2013 . 320 pp. Rs. 825 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2015  2015 Scholarly attention to sexual politics in India is important in the aftermath...

...Subrata K. Mitra India 1885–1947: The Unmaking of an Empire . By Ian Copland . Harlow, Essex : Longman , 2001 . 138 pp. $13.00 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2002 2002 BOOK REVIEWS SOUTH ASIA 1401 be hard to find a similarly succinct discussion...

...Subrata K. Mitra Democracy, Difference, and Social Justice . Edited By Gurpreet Mahajan . Delhi and New York : Oxford University Press , 1998 . xiii, 584 pp. $42.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2002 2002 BOOK REVIEWS SOUTH ASIA 1419 book does...

... e.g., Dumézil , L'idéologie tripartie , p. 34 f,; Les dieux des indo-européens ( Paris 1952 ), p. 9 ff.; Mitra-Varuṇa , passim; Mythe et épopée ( Paris 1968 ), p. 147. 7 I refer to my recent publications The Dual Deities in the Religion of the Veda ( Amsterdam Acad...

...Rumya Putcha Indian Sex Life: Sexuality and the Colonial Origins of Modern Social Thought . By Durba Mitra . Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press , 2020 . vii, 290 pp. ISBN: 9780691196343 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc., 2021 2021...

...D. R. Sardesai Legitimacy and Conflict in South Asia . Edited by Subrata K. Mitra and Dietmar Rothermund . New Delhi : Manohar Publishers , 1997 . viii, 279 pp. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1999 1999 1172 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES Legitimacy...

... , 1967 ), p. 14 (here with less emphasis). 7 See especially Thicme Paul , Mitra and Ar-yaman . Transactions of the Connecticut Academy oi Arts and Sciences, Vol. XLl ( New Haven , 1957 ). 8 For Dumézil's own assessment of this early work, sec his Mythe et épopée, I...

... reviews extant literature but also adds new insights into the origins of the Korean quagmire. B. C. KOH University of Illinois at Chicago SOUTH ASIA Mitra-Varuna: An Essay on Two Indo-European Representations of Sovereignty. By GEORGES DUMEZIL. Translated by DEREK COLTMAN. New York: Zone Books, 1988. 189...

...Ashutosh Varshney The Post-Colonial State in Asia: Dialectics of Politics and Culture . Edited by Subrata Kumar Mitra . New York : Harvester Wheatsheaf , 1990 . xi, 257 pp. $75.95. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1994 1994 BOOK REVIEWS ASIA GENERAL 145 appear...

... see Ruchi Ram Sahni, The Struggle for Reform in Sikh Shrines , pp. 215–19. 52 Tribune , 16 October 1923, p. 3, Khushwant Singh, A History of the Sikhs , II, p. 209, M. N. Mitra, Indian Quarterly Register , I, 1 (Jan.-Mar. 1924), p. 99. 53 See the resolutions on the Akalis passed...

... supporting the link between the Maitravaruna priest and the gods Mitra and Varuna, the author contemplates the significance of this identification in his concluding arguments. Using examples from the Brahmanas, he returns to the roles of these two gods as heavenly priests, representatives of thought...

...Kevin Trainor Seeding Buddhism with Multiculturalism: The Transmission of Sri Lankan Buddhism in Toronto . By D. Mitra Barua . Montreal : McGill-Queens University Press , 2019 . 280 pp. ISBN: 9780773556577 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc., 2020 2020...

... . xv, 206 pp. China: Issues in Development . Edited by Ashok Mitra . New Delhi : Tulika Print Communication Services , 1988 . vii, 181 pp. $25. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1990 1990 368 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES Reforming the Revolution: China...

... interest to students of the Indian philosophical tradition. It is unfortunate that Spengler did not link the writings attributed to Kautilya directly to the problems of contemporary India. Finally, Professor Ashok Mitra's "Tax Burden for Indian Agriculture" (pp. 281-303) argues that it is possible...

... of the Praisddhydya, a section of Rg Veda Khila literature, which is the source material for much of the presentation of the sacrifices. After leading the reader in excruciating detail through arguments supporting the link between the Maitravaruna priest and the gods Mitra and Varuna, the author contemplates...

... concerned with the nationalist identification of an "inner" domain of the community as the authentic and authoritative sign of the nation. Focusing on two texts written by Anandachandra Mitra (1854-1903), a Bengali intellectual, Chatterjee notes that Mitra's attempt to formulate a science of politics...

... this volume addresses, with case studies of Pakistan, India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, the Philippines, Indonesia, and South Korea. The overall argument, summarized by Subrata Mitra in his introduction, is that the attempts at European-style political modernization inevitably have had to contend...