Abstract
Freeman's study of a forty-year-old untouchable, named Muli, is a welcome contribution to South Asian ethnography, offering unique insights into the impact of complex psychosocial and environmental forces on India's untouchable castes. . . . It also has broader implications for the understanding of oppressed peoples throughout the world. . . . The volume includes certain topics that have received little attention from anthropologists. There are chapters on 'oath friendships, ' transvestites (male prostitutes), a symbolic marriage to a tree trunk, and several devastating chapters about the sexual exploitation of Bauri women by high-caste men. The text is full of rich information on social roles, family structure, marriage customs, and dishonesty among bureaucrats, priests, farmers, and even fellow Bauris. ---James J. Preston, Journal of Psychological Anthropology
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By the late 1930s the friends of India in Britain were largely concentrated in the Labour Party, with which Gandhi, Nehru, and Krishna Menon retained close contact
Moore makes out a convincing case for a "Cburchill-Linlithgow axis" that conspired against the slim possibility of success
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Powered by the California Digital Library University of California is central to R.]. Moore's thesis that Churchill had not changed his views about India. He did everything possible to sabotage any attempts to use the wartime situation to advance Indian independence. One important Indian who does not appear at all is Subhas Chandra Bose, who was collaborating with the J apanese and the Indian National Arm y that they had organized. This excellent study casts doubt on the long-accepted myth that India might have achieved its independence just as under a postwar Churchill government as it did under Attlee's Labour Party
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