graaha/nakra/makara

[McComas Taylor]

Thanks JK - I had a good look in Mandelbaum - which I enjoyed for many other
reasons, but couldn't find this one.

Yours

McC

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From: Indology [mailto:INDOLOGY at liverpool.ac.uk]On Behalf Of jkirk
Sent: Sunday, 15 February 2004 2:18 PM
To: INDOLOGY at liverpool.ac.uk
Subject: Re: graaha/nakra/makara


Dear McComas,

Your quotation sounds a lot like David G. Mandelbaum--but I'm not sure. The
term used in anthropology was usually biradari.
Mandelbaum, David (especially his 2 vol summaries of a lot of village
studies literature--_Society in India , 2 vols: Continuity and Change;
Change and Continuity_.
S. Asia Books brought out an edition in 1991--but it came out much earlier
than that.

Joanna Kirkpatrick
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> Dear Friends
>
> I wonder if any of you good folk could help me find a quotation that went
> something like this:
>
> `If you read the scriptures, you'd think India was about vaRnas; if you
read
> colonial censuses, you'd think it was about jAti; if you are an
> anthropologist in a village, you'd think it was about brotherhoods.'
>
> The word for brotherhood was a derivative of bhratR. I thought it might be
> from McKim Marriott or Dumont, or possibly Inden, Pollock, Dirks...
>
> With greetings and thanks in advance from a sweltering Canberra summer.
>
> McComas
>
>
> >
> > Does this ring a bell?
> >
> > Many thanks
> >
> > McComasCan anyone help me