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The south Indian temple: authority, honour and redistribution
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This article is published in Contributions to Indian Sociology.The article was published on 1976-07-01. It has received 146 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Redistribution (cultural anthropology) & Honour.read more
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gastro-politics in Hindu South Asia
TL;DR: The general semiotic properties of food take particularly intense forms in the context of gastro-politics where food is the medium and sometimes the message, of conflict as mentioned in this paper, and food serves two diametrically opposed functions: it can either homogenize the actors who transact in it, or it can serve to heterogenize them.
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Maritime Trade and State Development in Early Southeast Asia
TL;DR: The Humanities Open Book Program (HOOPP) is a joint initiative of the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation (OWM).
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Progress and Problems: South Asian Economic and Social History c.1720–1860
TL;DR: In the last five years, monographys on South Asia related historical subjects have been published by presses in Germany, the Netherlands, Sweden, France, the Soviet Union and Japan as well as, of course, India and Pakistan, the rest of the Commonwealth and the United States as discussed by the authors.
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Economic History of Early Southeast Asia
TL;DR: In the pre-nineteenth-century world, Southeast Asia was eulogized as a land of immense wealth; developments there were of crucial importance to the entirety of world history as mentioned in this paper.
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Conflict and Interlocal Festivals in a South Indian Region
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors describe four jatras held in Yadgiri Tahsil, an administrative subdivision of Mysore State, and some of their possible functions suggested.
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Temples and Political Development
TL;DR: In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, a flourishing political arena where formal, institutional politics barely impinged at all. as mentioned in this paper examines these roles in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and looks at how these roles drew the temples into the forefront of local politics.
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Skanda-Ṣaṣṭi: A Festival in Tamil India
TL;DR: The Skanda-Sasti festival is a reenactment of the mythical six-day career of the god, climaxed by his conquest of the malevolent forces of the cosmos and his marriage to his two consorts as mentioned in this paper.