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...Anjali Arondekar Woman, Body, Desire in Post-Colonial India: Narratives of Gender and Sexuality . By Jyoti Puri . New York : Routledge , 1999 . 224 pp. $65.00 (cloth), $17.99 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2001 2001 270 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES...

...Walter Anderson Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1981 1981 Bharatiya Jana Sangh: Organization and Ideology . By Geeta Puri . New Delhi : Sterling Publishers , 1980 . ix, 292 pp. Selected Bibliography, Index. Rs 90. BOOK REVIEWS SOUTH ASIA 185 is manifest everywhere...

... , 1971 ), 271 – 289 . Coomaraswamy Ananda K. 1934 . The Transformation of Nature in Art . Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press . Das J. P. 1982 . Puri Paintings . New Delhi : Arnold-Heinemann . Fischer Eberhart , Mahapatra Sitakant , and Pathy Dinanath . 1980...

...Jane Singh Ghadar Movement: Ideology, Organization, and Strategy . By Harish K. Puri . Amritsar : Guru Nanak Dev University Press , 1983 . iii, 218 pp. Bibliography, Index. N.p. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1984 1984 236 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES metaphor...

...Svati P. Shah Sexual States: Governance and the Struggle over the Antisodomy Law in India . By Jyoti Puri . Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press , 2016 . ISBN: 9870822360261 (cloth, also available in paper and as e-book). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies...

... complex at Puri in the eastern Indian state of Orissa. Ishita Dube's well-written and cogent contribution to this topic is a welcome addition. Unlike many works on the Jagannath pilgrimage, this one explores the political and economic transformations in the larger Indian context that have had very...

... is negotiated and those "texts" and "myths" are actually constructed. STEVEN KEMPER Bates College Ghadar Movement: Ideology, Organization, and Strategy. By HARISH K. PURI. Amritsar: Guru Nanak Dev University Press, 1983- iii, 218 pp. Bibliography, Index. N.p. The Ghadar party, a militant nationalist...

...Paul Wallace Political Elite and Society in the Punjab . By Nina Puri . New Delhi : Vikas , 1985 . viii, 218 pp. $25.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1989 1989 208 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES Political Elite and Society in the Punjab. By N I N A PURI. New...

... Association of India (FPAI) and its Sex Education, Counseling, Research Training/Therapy (SECRT) division, Puri argues that such materials "take the liberal viewpoint that factual information can normalize sexual development for teenagers, but end up prescribing gender and sexual norms and regurgitating...

... of communalism, queerness, and history in the contemporary formation of Indian national identity. Jyoti Puri's Woman, Body, Desire in Post-Colonial India adds to this rich field of scholarship by shifting our focus to a much-neglected space of critical inquiry: the sacrosanct space of urban middle-class...

.... There is a large literature on a wide variety of topics related to the great Jagannath temple complex at Puri in the eastern Indian state of Orissa. Ishita Dube's well-written and cogent contribution to this topic is a welcome addition. Unlike many works on the Jagannath pilgrimage, this one explores the political...

...: Organization and Ideology. By GEETA PURI. New Delhi: Sterling Publishers, 1980. viii, 292 pp. Select Bibliography, Index. $24.95. (Distributed by Asia Book Corporation of America, Queen's Village, N.Y) This is a revision (perhaps "extension" would be a better description) of the author's Jawaharlal Nehru...

... interviews and participant observations, Johnson examines two villages in the state of Maharashtra. Raj Puri is closer to an urban center, and Danawli is much more remote. Johnson largely focuses his ethnographic study on Danawli. (He conducted interviews in Raj Puri in order to provide a comparison...

... villages in the state of Maharashtra. Raj Puri is closer to an urban center, and Danawli is much more remote. Johnson largely focuses his ethnographic study on Danawli. (He conducted interviews in Raj Puri in order to provide a comparison.) Because of its location, Danawli still has access only...

... an ahistorical standard of “universal” or “human” emancipation. Higher agricultural wages and access to vacant common land continue to be major elements in the landless labor movement in both east and west Panjab today (Akhtar 2006 ; Puri 2004 ; Sandhu 2016 ). Ambedkar too was not unaware of the foundations...

... in local bazaars, and further afield in urban centers, and thus provide an alternate means of support for their families. The temple paintings from Puri in Orissa fall under the iconic category. They are ritual paintings that are associated with the cult of Jagannatha, a manifestation of Vishnu...

..., and further afield in urban centers, and thus provide an alternate means of support for their families. The temple paintings from Puri in Orissa fall under the iconic category. They are ritual paintings that are associated with the cult of Jagannatha, a manifestation of Vishnu, and are made to be iconic...

...: Organization and Ideology. By GEETA PURI. New Delhi: Sterling Publishers, 1980. viii, 292 pp. Select Bibliography, Index. $24.95. (Distributed by Asia Book Corporation of America, Queen's Village, N.Y) This is a revision (perhaps "extension" would be a better description) of the author's Jawaharlal Nehru...

... history and culminates in the role of the Jana Sangh cadre in the 1975-77 state of emergency and their experience within the Janata Party after the March 1977 general elections. In presenting a comprehensive description of the party's activities, Puri's partisan views are often thinly disguised...

... of the Jagannath Puri temple complex. Her analysis is sharply focused and penetrating. The chapter on temple priests and temple servants describes the elaborate rituals associated with the preparation of the sacraments at Jagannath temple. Particularly interesting here are the different functions of the Brahmin...