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...Chad M. Bauman Reference Bauman , Chad M. 2020 . Review of Privileged Minorities: Syrian Christianity, Gender, and Minority Rights in Postcolonial India, by Sonja Thomas . Journal of Asian Studies 79 ( 2 ): 527 – 529 . The review has been updated. The author apologizes...

...Chad M. Bauman *This review has been updated since its original publication. See https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021911820002351 . Privileged Minorities: Syrian Christianity, Gender, and Minority Rights in Postcolonial India . By Sonja Thomas . Seattle : University of Washington Press...

... of modern-day Kerala state. This history is chronologically traced through a succession of commercial crops, such as spices, coffee, tea, and rubber, from the precolonial Varma monarchy, through the Princely State of Travancore, to the postcolonial Syrian Christian plantations. This history is analyzed...

.... Moreover, a small-scale grassroots initiative geared toward resettlement of Syrian refugees has recently been launched in Japan to underscore the capabilities of its civil society and potential legal pathways. In December 2015, prior to announcement of the government's program to admit Syrian refugees...

... T H E J O U R N A L O F A S I A N S T U D I E S communities residing in the southwestern coastal province of Kerala: Mappila Muslims, Ezhava Hindus, and Syrian Christians. In each case, Prema A. Kurien analyzes patterns of migration, remittance use, and migration-induced social change to show...

... Nayars referred to themselves as cultivators (men who owned or leased land to cultivate or have cultivated by others), whereas only twenty-three percent of the Christian males were so listed. Most of these latter were Syrian Christians claiming to have been converted from the Nayar or Brahman communities...

..., that is, they were affected in significant (and largely negative) ways by a complex mélange of local and translocal factors. India's first substantial community of Christians, the Malayalam-speaking St. Thomas or “Syrian” Christians, had achieved a relatively high status within South Indian society already...

... of religion in a complex society to create multiple types and sites of conflict and cohesion. Puthenangadi, on the outskirts of a central Kerala town, is dominated by the Yakoba, an Orthodox Jacobite section of the region's denominationally fragmented Syrian Christians, whose collective memory reaches back...

... cultivated by others), whereas only twenty-three percent of the Christian males were so listed. Most of these latter were Syrian Christians claiming to have been converted from the Nayar or Brahman communities. In the first half of the nineteenth century, the Syrian Christians who had earlier engaged in some...

... fragmented Syrian Christians, whose collective memory reaches back to the first century A.D. Within the Yakoba sect, a theological and cultural homogeneity which permits intermarriage and residential solidarity is marred by an ecclesiastical schism, an 80year-old dispute which is both mirror and outcome...

...) engendered in them a BOOK REVIEWS SOUTH ASIA 993 sense of being "South Indian gentlemen" who mixed freely with Tamils and Telegus of similar elite status. By 1920 migration from Kerala was broadening to include significant numbers of Syrian Christians as well as members of lower-ranking Hindu castes...

... GulfMakran Coasts Other Iranian Deserts 67,000 30,000 8,000 89,000 33,000 Afghanistan 81 ,ooo Pakistan-India Thar Desert Baluchistan 202,000 40,000 Arabian Deserts 1,300,000 Syrian-Iraq Desert, to 30°N. 224,000 Rub al Khali Desert 229,000 Turkey 14,000 134.000 square miles 69,000 " 34,000 750,000 " " " 397...

... a different problem. The old, established Syrian Church was encapsulated in Hindu society as a caste and made no attempts to attack the system on Christian grounds. Protestant efforts to introduce the concepts of equality and evangelism produced only limited results. Among Indian Christians, opposition...

... texts (on stone and paper) from Syriac Christians who first entered the Tang Empire in 635 CE is one of the finest contributions now filling in a large gap of missing scholarship on Sino-Sogdian and Sino-Syrian religious encounter. This work follows on the heels of other studies such as R. Todd Godwin's...

..., or Syria. Syria's foreign minister asserted in July 2013 that “at least thirty Uyghurs had traveled from ‘jihadist’ training camps in Pakistan to Syria via Turkey and that the Syrian government was sharing its intelligence on the Uyghurs with Beijing” (p. 26). The first theme relates to Uyghur...

.... These chapters also suffer from innumerable mistakes and unsupported assertions. While the study cannot be recommended as a thorough treatment of the subject, it does provide specialists in modern Indian history and politics with new information and questions. The price of almost eleven The Syrian Social...

... Christian leaders saw them as a way to evangelize India; others as movements based on the wrong motive of social advancement. 866 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES In Kerala, Protestants faced a different problem. The old, established Syrian Church was encapsulated in Hindu society as a caste and made no attempts...

... Society and SNDP Yogam) and religion (Syrian and Anglican Christians), this was, as James Chiriyankandath has shown, “welfare communalism,” that is, organizations that got together to promote the interests of their grouping. While there was communalism, there was almost no communal violence. In order...

... centered upon Antioch. Chinese emissaries got no further than the Caspian Sea and the Persian Gulf and the History of the Posterior Han Dynasty decides from the poverty of the gifts brought by the Roman (Syrian?) emissary to Tongking in A.D. 166 that the reports of Ta Ts'in's wealth and greatness had been...

..., from the precolonial Varma monarchy, through the Princely State of Travancore, to the postcolonial Syrian Christian plantations. This history is analyzed through the prism of plantation elites and their struggle to acquire land, wealth, and political power. ...