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Caste, Conflict, and Ideology: Mahatma Jotirao Phule and Low Caste Protest in Nineteenth-Century Western India
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Title Caste, Conflict, and Ideology: Mahatma Jotirao Phule and Low Caste Protest in NineteenthCentury Western India
Powered by the California Digital Library University of California concludes that most Japanese in the late Meiji era viewed the emperor less as the focus of absolute loyalty than as a symbol of national unity, military success, and the country's rapid modernization
Gluck is less persuasive in the last pages, in which she briefly explores the significance of late Meiji ideology for the succeeding eras of "Taisho democracy" (191Os and 1920s) and authoritarianism (1931-45)
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Title Caste, Conflict, and Ideology: Mahatma Jotirao Phule and Low Caste Protest in NineteenthCentury Western India. The use of popular songs and descriptions of New Year's games (for example, the contest to be state officials) makes this one of the first Western studies of modern Japan to bridge the gap between high and low culture. Gluck is less persuasive in the last pages, in which she briefly explores the significance of late Meiji ideology for the succeeding eras of "Taisho democracy" (191Os and 1920s) and authoritarianism (1931-45).
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