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...John T. Hitchcock Contributions to Indian Sociology . No. 1, April 1957. Eds. Louis Dumont and D. Pocock . Paris and The Hague : Mouton and Co. , 1957 . 64 . Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1958 1958 BOOK REVIEWS 649 lays will be needed in the future...

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..., peasants, and businessmen. There are dissenters, but few will risk open criticism of Marxist theory, Russian orientation, or party policy. This paper deals with the pronouncements and actions of a group of scholars and educators in the field of sociology who have been particularly prominent...

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... Society: A Monistic Alternative to Dumont's Dualism,” JAS , XXXVI, 1 (1976), pp. 189–95. 2 Louis Dumont, “The Conception of Kingship in Ancient India,” Contributions to Indian Sociology , 6 (1962), pp. 48–77. 3 Wagner Roy , The Invention of Culture ( Englewood Cliffs , N.J...