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... ritual such as temple keepers of various castes, barbers, carpenters, musicians, etc. (Dube, 1955; Opler and Singh, 1948; Planalp, 1956; Srinivas, 1952). Many of these patterns of religious participation are described and prescribed in the Sanskritic literature of Hinduism, and so fall within the “great...

...M. N. Srinivas Abstract The concept of “Sanskritization” was found useful by me in the analysis of the social and religious life of the Coorgs of South India. A few other anthropologists who are making studies of tribal and village communities in various parts of India seem to find the concept...

...Tulasi Srinivas History, Culture and the Indian City . By Rajnarayan Chandavarkar . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2009 . 270 pp. $80.25 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2011 2011 This posthumously published collection of nine brilliant...

...Tulasi Srinivas In short I found this book very valuable, challenging of my assumptions, powerful in method and original in focus. Nicholson's challenge to any scholar of Hinduism is to consider the lesser-known vernacular texts and to look at the exceedingly complex picture of Hindu philosophy...

...Tulasi Srinivas Making Lahore Modern: Constructing and Imagining a Colonial City . By William J. Glover . Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press , 2007 . 280 pp. $75.00 (cloth); $25.00 (paper) . Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2008 2008...

...Claire C. Robison The Making of a Modern Temple and a Hindu City: Kalighat and Kolkata . By Deonnie Moodie . Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2019 . xv, 217 pp. ISBN: 9780190885267 (cloth). The Cow in the Elevator: An Anthropology of Wonder . By Tulasi Srinivas . Durham, N.C...

...Gerald D. Berreman Social Change in Modern India . By M. N. Srinivas . Berkeley and Los Angeles : University of California Press , 1966 . xv, 194 pp. Notes, Reading List, Index. $5.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1967 1967 EOOK REVIEWS 333 urban areas...

...Lawrence A. Babb Indian Society through Personal Writings . By M. N. Srinivas . Delhi : Oxford University Press , 1998 (First published 1996). xi, 245 pp. $13.95 (paper). Village, Caste, Gender and Method . By M. N. Srinivas . Delhi : Oxford University Press , 1998 (First...

.... 16 Nandi also presents data on the “Omar” Sabha, although on many points his information is in disagreement with my own. Nandi, pp. 91–92. 15 This definition follows Srinivas' usage with reference to caste in its ritual and social aspects. Srinivas (1962), pp. 3–4. 14 Bailey, p...

...)- Still, it would be a valuable addition to any library utilized by scholars of Indian religions. ANDREW O. FORT Texas Christian University On Living in a Revolution and Other Essays. By M. N . SRINIVAS. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1992. xi, 209 pp. $18.95. M. N. Srinivas writes of a revolution begun...

...Alf Hiltebeitel Landscapes of Urban Memory: The Sacred and the Civic in India's High-Tech City . By Smriti Srinivas . Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press , 2001 . 376 pp. $57.95 (cloth); $22.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2003 2003 BOOK...

...Amanda Huffer Srinivas argues that the Sai movement presents us with an innovative “postulation of non-Euro-American pluralism and its ideological ally, cosmopolitanism, a cosmopolitanism from the margins of the global network” (p. 326). In order to enact the praxis of engaged cosmopolitanism...

...David L. Curley Social Structure and Change . Edited by A. M. Shah , B. S. Baviskar , and E. A. Ramaswamy . Volume 1: Theory and Method—Evaluation of the Work of M. N. Srinivas. Volume 2: Women in Indian Society. Volume 3: Complex Organizations and Urban Communities. Volume 4: Development...

... , 1955 ), pp. 1 – 35 . 3 By Srinivas M. N. in The Far Eastern Quarterly , XV ( 1955 – 1956 ), 481 – 496 . 4 In a later paper, Sanskritization is also applied to Brahmans: “The Problem of Indian Unity,” The Economic Weekly , 26 04 , 1958 , pp. 571 – 577 ; reprinted...

... in Modern India. BY M. N. SRINIVAS. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1966. xv, 194 pp. Notes, Reading List, Index. $5.00. In the past decade and a half, M. N. Srinivas has emerged as India's leading anthropologist. The book reviewed here is in part a product of his eminence...

... work on the Sankaracarya tradition, A Tradition of Teachers (Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, 1983)- Still, it would be a valuable addition to any library utilized by scholars of Indian religions. ANDREW O. FORT Texas Christian University On Living in a Revolution and Other Essays. By M. N . SRINIVAS. Delhi...

... groups or individuals are given priority in jobs, scholarships, political representation, etc Secularization is a trend that has been too little discussed with reference to India. Here Srinivas gives a stimulating overview as he shows that Hinduism is becoming increasingly disassociated from...