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... a difference in levels of analysis, the historian taking a more encompassing perspective while the anthropologist in the course of his fieldwork concentrates on the grass-roots social world of village India. Partly it reflects the bias of the historical discipline in general toward formal institutions...

...Himanshu Jha Clients and Constituents: Political Responsiveness in Patronage Democracies . By Jennifer Bussell . New York : Oxford University Press , 2019 . 367 pp. ISBN: 9780190945404 (paper). Social Justice through Inclusion: The Consequences of Electoral Quotas in India...

...Robert I. Crane Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1966 1966 Social Ideas and Social Change in Bengal, 1818–1835 . By A. F. Salahuddin Ahmed . Leiden : E. J. Brill , 1965 . x, 204 , Appendices, Bibliography, Index. Guilders 28. 556 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES...

...Douglas G. Haring Social Anthropology in Melanesia: A Review of Research . By A. P. Elkin . Published under the auspices of the South Pacific Commission. Melbourne : Oxford University Press , 1953 . xiii, 166 . 27/6 Social Anthropology in Polynesia: A Review of Research...

..., and perhaps in others as well. Japan has lots of problems that need attention—certainly economic, but also political, social, administrative, and possibly cultural. Some are made more difficult by demographic change, but in my view, few, if any, thereby become insurmountable. For myself, I am confident...

... political cultures and different political party affiliations. At the city level, economic change and social mobility have given rise to greater internal differentiation within the caste and a concomitant decline in the elaboration of caste ranking. Ultimately, such developments might provide a foundation...

...Fujiya Kawashima Chosŏn Sahoesa Yŏn'gu: Chosŏn Sahoe Ŭi Kujo Wa Sŏnggkyŏk Mil Ku P'yŏngch'ŏn e Kwanhan Yŏn'gu . [A study of the Chosŏn social history: The social structure and its characteristics and change] . By Chun-ho Song . Seoul : Ilchogak , 1987 . xii, 518 pp. W9,000. Copyright...

...Robert G. Varady Social Ecology. Oxford in India Readings in Sociology and Social Anthropology . Edited by Ramachandra Guha . Delhi : Oxford University Press , 1994 . x, 398 pp. $28.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1995 1995 BOOK REVIEWS SOUTH ASIA 1129...

...Mark R. Woodward Abstract I n social and political discourse in contemporary Indonesia, the use of hadīth texts serves social and political as well as more narrowly religious ends. Among the purposes of the translation and exegesis of Arabic texts are the definition of an ideal Islamic society...

...Frank E. Reynolds The Social Face of Buddhism: An Approach to Political and Social Activism . By Ken Jones . London : Wisdom Publications , 1989 . 415 pp. $18.95 (cloth); $9.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1990 1990 882 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES...

...Amanda Weidman India Connected: How the Smartphone Is Transforming the World's Largest Democracy . By Ravi Agrawal . New York : Oxford University Press , 2018 . viii, 230 pp. ISBN: 9780190858650 (cloth). A Village Goes Mobile: Telephony, Mediation, and Social Change in Rural India...

...R. E. Frykenberg BOOK REVIEWS SOUTH ASIA 395 Social Protest in India: British Protestant Missionaries and Social Reforms, 1850-1900. B y G . A. ODDIE. Columbia, Mo.: South Asia Books, 1978. vi, 283 pp. Bibliography, Index. $17.50. Historians of modern Africa have known all along that they could...

...Lenore Manderson Social Engineering in Singapore: Educational Policies and Social Change, 1819–1972 . By H. E. Wilson . Singapore : Singapore University Press (for the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore), 1978 . xv, 300 pp. Tables, Appendixes, Bibliography, Index. $20.00...

...Ralph W. Nicholas Castes: Old and New. Essays in Social Structure and Social Stratification . By André Béteille . New York : Asia Publishing House , 1969 . viii, 254 pp. Index, n.p. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1970 1970 950 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES reasons...

...Walter F. Vella Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1958 1958 The Social Sciences and Thailand: A Compilation of Articles on Various Social-Science Fields and their Application to Thailand . Ed. G. William Skinner , et al. Published under the auspices of the Education...

...Philip Singer Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1962 1962 Sociology, Social Research, and Social Problems in India . Edited by R. N. Saksena . New York : Asia Publishing House , 1961 . 193 . Tables, Indices. $7.50 BOOK REVIEWS 437 conforms to classical Sanskrit...

...Joseph W. Elder Social Profiles of a Metropolis. Social and Economic Structure of Lucknow, Capital of Uttar Pradesh, 1954–56 . By Radhakamal Mukerjee and Baljit Singh . New York : Asia Publishing House , 1961 . xii, 210 . Tables, Appendices, Index. Copyright © The Association...

...Victor Jesudason Determinants of Social Structure and Social Change in India and Other Papers . By K. C. Panchanadikar and Mrs. J. Panchanadikar . Bombay : Popular Prakashan , 1970 . xv, 241 pp. Index. Rs. 32.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1971 1971 BOOK...

...Mark Juergensmeyer 398 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES Social Movements and Social Transformation: A Study of Two Backward Classes Movements in India. By: M. S. A. RAO. India: Macmillan Company of India, 1979. 256 pp. Appendixes, Bibliography, Author Index. $16 (cloth). (Distributed by South Asia Books...

...Matthew H. Sommer Social Power and Legal Culture: Litigation Masters in Late Imperial China . By Melissa Ann Macauley . Law, Society, and Culture in Late Imperial China . Edited by Kathryn Bernhardt and Philip C. C. Huang . Stanford : Stanford University Press , 1998 . 456 pp...