...Marvin Davis Abstract Hindus regard all humans as fundamentally unequal. Hindu society is organized around groupings of people into ranked castes. On this there is general agreement, as Dumont's apt characterization, Homo hierarchies , affirms and attests. No similar agreement exists, however...

...Thomas R. Trautmann † Thomas R. Trautmann is Professor of History at the University of Michigan. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1980 1980 VOL. XXXIX, No. 3 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES MAY 1980 Review Article Marriage and Rank in Bengali Culture* THOMAS R...

.... and Rao M. S. A. . Vol. 1 . Delhi : Oxford University Press . Revolution and Rank in Tamil Nationalism PAMELA PRICE Introduction From the 1920s to the late 1960s, Tamil nationalism in India was characterized by elements of radical innovation which made the Dravidian movement a mobilization...

... of the structures and processes shaping the modern-day encounter between small peasant producers and capitalist enterprise. ANAND A. YANG University of Utah The Apparatus of Empire: Awards of Ranks, Offices, and Titles to the Mughal Nobility (1574-1658). By M. ATHAR ALL Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1985. (Center...

...Jeffrey P. Mass Ancient Japanese Nobility: The Kabane Ranking System . By Richard J. Miller . Berkeley : University of California Press , 1974 . xii, 209 pp. Appendixes, Bibliography. $9.00 Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1976 1976 680 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES...

...Adele G. Epstein Thai Titles and Ranks, Including a Translation of Traditions of Royal Lineage in Siam by King Chulalongkorn . By Robert B. Jones . Data Paper Number 81. Ithaca : Southeast Asia Program, Department of Asian Studies, Cornell University , 1971 . x, 147 pp. Appendix...

...Guido Sprenger Abstract In the Southeast Asian highlands, different types of hierarchy appear as forms of social organization as well as devices for intersocietal communication. In the present case, ranked titles from centralized Tai Meuang hierarchies such as the Lao or the Lue in southern China...

...Barry B. Hughes Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1992 1992 Measuring Global Values: The Ranking of 162 Countries . By Michael J. Sullivan III. 1991 . New York : Greenwood Press , xvi, 423 pp. BOOK REVIEWS ASIA GENERAL 373 But researchers in comparative...

... Industrial Relations Section Massachusetts Institute of Technology Caste Ranking and Community Structure in Five Regions of India and Pakistan. By MCKIM MARRIOTT. Deccan College Monograph Series: 23. Poona: Deccan College Postgraduate and Research Institute, i960. Illustrated, Tables, References. Rs. 5...

... use of foreign models. In the late nineteenth century components of three environments appear to have produced frustrations or expectations particularly conducive to criticism: the lower and middle ranks of the metropolitan bureaucracy, the treaty ports, and elite managerial and scholarly circles...

... and the political system of daimyo rule. It also created opportunities for younger sons to remain in the elite class under a system of primogeniture. Adoption in the middle and upper ( shi ) ranks of the class was normally between related families of roughly the same social status. Where status differences were...

... in these provinces. By fraud or chicanery, a vast number of the estates of families of rank and influence have been alienated, either wholly or in part, and have been purchased by new men … without character or influence over their tenantry. … I am fully satisfied that the rural classes would never have joined...