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Journal of Asian Studies (2016) 75 (3): 867–869.
Published: 01 August 2016
... at the conjuncture of missionary intentions and local agency will be grateful to James Taneti for offering us this remarkable account. The last chapter of the book locates the experience of the Telugu Biblewomen within a larger global movement of women in Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Americas. Taneti's account...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2004) 63 (3): 832–833.
Published: 01 August 2004
...Rama Sundari Mantena Hibiscus on the Lake: Twentieth-Century Telugu Poetry from India . Edited and translated by Velcheru Narayana Rao . Madison : University of Wisconsin Press , 2003 . xxiii, 330 pp. $45.00 (cloth); $18.95 (paper). Copyright © Association for Asian Studies 2004...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1995) 54 (1): 247–248.
Published: 01 February 1995
...Leslie C. Orr When God Is a Customer: Telugu Courtesan Songs by Kṣetrayya and Others . Edited by A. K. Ramanujan , Velcheru Narayana Rao , and David Shulman . Berkeley : University of California Press , 1994 . 158 pp. $25.00 (cloth); $12.00 (paper). Copyright © The Association...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2019) 78 (1): 229–231.
Published: 01 February 2019
... Narayana Rao (or VNR, as he is known) is the preeminent scholar of Telugu studies in the American academy. His works, composed singly and with a stable of collaborators, now form the small library of monographs and translations that practically constitutes the field's literature. What's more, in over...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2011) 70 (4): 1195–1197.
Published: 01 November 2011
... Language was never the primary organizing principle in Indian society, but by 1950s, Indian states began to be re-organized on linguistic lines. How did this change come about? Using Telugu as a case study, anthropologist Lisa Mitchell adduces a wealth of evidence from archives, textbooks, maps...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2012) 71 (4): 945–962.
Published: 01 November 2012
...Indrani Chatterjee Abstract From the 1960s to the present, scholars of Sanskrit, Tamil, Telugu, Bengali, and other regional literatures and cultures have spelled out their differences with either their Freudian or Foucauldian counterparts on the articulation of love, desire, and embodiment...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1995) 54 (1): 246–247.
Published: 01 February 1995
... predecessor, Radcliffe-Brown, yet in the end, they have much in common. DEBORAH WINSLOW University of New Hampshire When God Is a Customer: Telugu Courtesan Songs by Ksetrayya and Others. Edited and translated by A. K. R A M A N U J A N , VELCHERU N A R A Y A N A R A O , and D A V I D SHULMAN. Berkeley...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1997) 56 (2): 535–537.
Published: 01 May 1997
... and power of oral and written words. He has also been instrumental in expanding the study of South Indian civilization and culture, which has hitherto been largely Tamil-centric, to incorporate his native Telugu culture. Indeed, most of the articles in this volume focus on Telugu culture or the Andhra...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1996) 55 (4): 1055–1057.
Published: 01 November 1996
... of the Rayavacakamu. By P H I L I P B. W A G O N E R . Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1993. xi, 263 pp. $38.00 (cloth). 1056 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES Tidings of the King will reward a variety of readers. Publication of a work of medieval Telugu prose, in its entirety, is a unique and welcome event...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1983) 42 (2): 291–307.
Published: 01 February 1983
... years some service nomads may have taken up new pursuits as their old ones have become less profitable; see the Nandiwalla examples given below. 3 The Nandiwallas migrated from Andhra hun- dreds of years ago. They still speak a dialect of Telugu among themselves, although all of them are also fluent...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1984) 43 (4): 788–789.
Published: 01 August 1984
..., informed, and moved. The Palndti Virula Katha is not just a down-market Mahabharata, even though it is a work of des'i character in the sense that its language is Telugu, not the Sanskrit oimdrga productions; in the further sense that the Palnadu epic is a living tradition, orally transmitted by low caste...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1975) 34 (4): 1065–1066.
Published: 01 August 1975
.... Venkataramanayya, sets out to provide records of the 98 epigraphs in the village of Alampur, of which he has deciphered the 35 that are in the Alampur Museum. Although only 11 are illustrated, the complete Telugu script and English transliteration of all 35 epigraphs have been provided. As these depict...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2020) 79 (2): 522–524.
Published: 01 May 2020
... Harshita Mruthinti Kamath's recent monograph joins a growing catalog of books published in the global North academy on dance, genre, and transnational religious identifications—understood almost exclusively as “Hindu” and dominant caste—extending from India. 1 Focusing on the South Indian (Telugu...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1984) 43 (4): 787–788.
Published: 01 August 1984
... in which people of any time are engaged, informed, and moved. The Palndti Virula Katha is not just a down-market Mahabharata, even though it is a work of des'i character in the sense that its language is Telugu, not the Sanskrit oimdrga productions; in the further sense that the Palnadu epic is a living...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2006) 65 (1): 219–220.
Published: 01 February 2006
..., the predominantly Telugu-speaking region of the former princely state of Hyderabad which became part of Andhra Pradesh in 1956, has long been noted for peasant exploitation, discontent, protest, and rebellion. Surrounding the burgeoning state capital of Hyderabad, Telangana remains the poorest and least developed...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1985) 44 (2): 448–449.
Published: 01 February 1985
... of recent publications on topics of Indian Islam (by S. Vahiduddin, A. R. Saiyed and C. W. Troll). The articles on Qur an translations into Dravidian languages, Tamil (by M. Y Kokan), Telugu (by T. I. Chinniah), and Kannada (by M. M. Husine) complement the perfunctory statement in the relevant article...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1976) 35 (2): 237–256.
Published: 01 February 1976
... of this line. Hyderabad proper, to which all references in this paper apply, was the object of sustained administrative reorganization in the period 1687–1700. Efforts at a similar consolidation in the Hyderabad Karnatik were cut short by the 1689 rebellion of the Telugu nayaks and the flight of the Maratha...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1976) 36 (1): 161–162.
Published: 01 November 1976
..., Bijapur. I would have also preferred a better description of "the Telugu Society" than the one Richards offers in the initial portion. His description of the administration of the Golconda kingdom too is not often based on a direct examination of the materials. However it is a pretty good summary account...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1963) 22 (2): 193–200.
Published: 01 February 1963
... branches of classical Indian dramaturgy. This paper discusses one of the most illustrative parts of this tradition of natya in South India. Bhagavata Mela Natakam as practiced in Melattur, Tanjore District, stems from the time of Venkatarama Sastri, a Telugu Brahmin, elder contemporary of the great...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1977) 37 (1): 7–26.
Published: 01 November 1977
... , Madras: Temples of Madras State ( Madras : Govt. Press , 1966 ). 54 Indian Census of 1931 , Madras, XV, 1, “Report” by Yeatts M. W. M. (Madras: Govt. Press, 1932 ). p. 286 ; for discussion of Telugu settlement characteristics, p. 289. 55 Recently and staunchly documented...