Books and Articles
Abu-Lughod, Lila. Veiled Sentiments: Honor and Poetry in a Bedouin Society. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1986.
Agni Puranam. Trans. Manmatha Nath Dutt Shastri. 2 vols. Chowkhamba Sanskrit Series, no. 54. Varanasi: Chowkhamba Sanskrit Studies Office, 1967.
Allen, Charles, and Sharada Dwivedi. Lives of the Indian Princes . London: Century Publishing, 1984.
Alston, A. J. The Devotional Poems of Mirabai. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, 1980.
Apte, Vaman Shivram. The Practical Sanskrit-English Dictionary. Rev. ed. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, 1978.
Bakshi, Rajni. "Shame!" The Illustrated Weekly of India , 4 October 1987, 20-23.
Beck, Brenda. Peasant Society in Konku: A study of right and left subcastes in South Asia. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 1972.
Beck, Brenda. The Three Twins: The Telling of a South Indian Folk Epic. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1982.
Beech, Mary Higdon. "The Domestic Realm in the Lives of Hindu Women in Calcutta." In Separate Worlds: Studies of Purdah in South Asia , ed. Hanna Papanek and Gail Minault, 110-38. Delhi: Chanakya Publications, 1982.
Bennett, Lynn. Dangerous Wives and Sacred Sisters: Social and Symbolic Roles of High-Caste Women in Nepal. New York: Columbia University Press, 1983.
Berreman, Gerald. Hindus of the Himalayas: Ethnography and Change. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1972.
Bhadvar, Inderjit. "Militant Defiance." India Today , 31 October 1987, 18-20.
Bhattacharya, France. "La déesse et le royaume, selon le Kalaketu Upakhyana du Candi Mangala." Purusartha: Sciences Sociales en Asie du Sud 5 (1981): 17-53.
Biardeau, Madeleine, and Charles Malamoud. Le sacrifice dans l'Inde ancienne. Paris: Presses universitaires de France, 1976.
Callewaert, Winand M. "Dadu and the Dadu-Panth: The Sources." In The Sants: Studies in a Devotional Tradition of India , ed. Karine Schomer and W. H. McLeod, 181-89. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, 1987.
Carstairs, G. Morris. The Twice-Born: A Study of High-Caste Hindus. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1967.
Chaturvedi, Mahendra, and B. N. Tiwari. A Practical Hindi-English Dictionary. 10th ed. Delhi: National Publishing House, 1983.
Chauhan, Brij Raj. A Rajasthan Village. Delhi: Vir Publishing House, 1967.
Coburn, Thomas B. Devi Mahatmya: The Crystallization of the Goddess Tradition. Columbia, Mo.: South Asia Books, 1985.
Coccari, Diane. "The Bir Babas of Banaras: An Analysis of a Folk Deity in North Indian Hinduism." Ph.D. dissertation, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1986.
Courtright, Paul. The Goddess and the Dreadful Practice. London: Oxford University Press (forthcoming).
Cutler, Norman, and Joanne Punzo Waghorne, eds. Gods of Flesh, Gods of Stone: The Embodiment of Divinity in India. Chambersburg, Pa.: Anima Books, 1985.
Das, Veena. "Gender Studies, Cross-Cultural Comparison, and the Colonial Organization of Knowledge." Berkshire Review (1986): 58-79.
Das, Veena. "The Goddess and the Demon: An Analysis of The Devi-Mahatmya. " Unpublished paper, 1986.
Das, Veena. "Strange Response." The Illustrated Weekly of India , 28 February 1988, 30-32.
Datta, V. N. Sati: A historical, social, and philosophical enquiry into the Hindu rite of widow burning. Delhi: Manohar, 1988.
Davis, Marvin. Rank and Rivalry: The Politics of Inequality in Rural West Bengal. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1983.
Devi, Gayatri, of Jaipur, and Santha Rama Rau. A Princess Remembers: The Memoirs of the Maharani of Jaipur. Delhi: Vikas, 1976.
Dirks, Nicholas. The Hollow Crown. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987.
Eck, Diana. Darsan: Seeing the Divine Image in India. Chambersburg, Pa.: Anima Books, 1981.
Filliozat, Pierre. "The After-Death Destiny of the Hero According to the Mahabharata." In Memorial Stones: A Study of Their Origin, Significance, and Variety , ed. S. Settar and Gunther D. Sontheimer, 3-8. Dharwad: Institute of Art History, Karnatak University and Heidelberg: South Asia Institute, University of Heidelberg, 1982.
Fox, Richard G. Kin, Clan, Raja, and Rule: State-Hinterland Relations in Preindustrial India. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1971.
Fruzetti, Lina M. The Gift of a Virgin: Women, Marriage, and Ritual in a Bengali Society. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1982.
Fuller, C. J. "The Hindu Pantheon and the Legitimation of Hierarchy." Man: Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute , n.s., 23, no. 1 (March 1988): 19-39.
Fuller, C. J. Servants of the Goddess: The Priest of a South Indian Temple. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984.
Galey, Jean-Claude. "Totalité et hiérarchie dans les sanctuaires royaux du Tehri-Garhwal." Purusartha: Sciences Sociales en Asie du Sud 10 (1986): 55-95.
Gaur, Meena. Sati and Social Reforms in India. Jaipur: Publication Scheme, 1989.
Geertz, Clifford. The Interpretation of Cultures. New York: Basic Books, 1973.
Gold, Ann Grodzins. "Cow Worship, Goat Talk: Women's Play and the Sexual Reversal of Death." Paper presented at the American Anthropological Association, Annual Meeting, Denver, November 1984.
Gold, Ann Grodzins. Fruitful Journeys: The Ways of Rajasthani Pilgrims. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988.
Gold, Ann Grodzins. "Stories of Shakti: Interpreting Female Violence in Some Rajasthani Traditions." Paper presented at the Association for Asian Studies, Annual Meeting, Washington, D. C., March 1989.
Goldman, Robert. "Fathers, Sons, and Gurus: Oedipal Conflict in the Sanskrit Epics." Journal of Indian Philosophy 6 (1978): 325-92.
Hanchett, Suzanne. "Ritual Symbols--Unifying or Divisive: Observations on the Relation Between Festivals and Political Processes in South Asia." In Religion in Modern India , ed. Giri Raj Gupta, 131-50. Delhi: Vikas, 1983.
Hansen, Kathryn. "The Virangana in North Indian History: Myth and Popular Culture." Economic and Political Weekly , 30 April 1988, 25-33.
Harlan, Lindsey. "Abandoning Shame." Paper presented at the conference, Representations of India's Past, Varanasi, India, December 1989.
Harlan, Lindsey. "Kuldevi Tradition among Rajput Women." Paper presented at the conference, Women's Rites, Women's Desires, Harvard University, April 1988.
Harlan, Lindsey. "Sati Veneration." In New Light on Sati , ed. John Stratton Hawley (forthcoming).
Harlan, Lindsey. "Social Change and Rajput Tradition." Paper presented at the Conference on Modern South Asian Religion, Social Science Research Council, Amherst, August 1987.
Harman, William. The Sacred Marriage of a Hindu Goddess. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1989.
Hawley, John Stratton. "Morality Beyond Morality in the Lives of Three Hindu Saints." In Saints and Virtues , 52-72. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1987.
Hawley, John Stratton., ed. Saints and Virtues. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1987.
Hawley, John Stratton, and Mark Juergensmeyer. Songs of the Saints of India. New York: Oxford University Press, 1988.
Heesterman, Jan. The Inner Conflict of Tradition: Essays on the Indian Ritual, Kinship, and Society. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1985.
Herrenschmidt, Olivier. "Le sacrifice du buffle en Andhra cotier: le «culte de village» confronté aux notions de sacrifiant et d'unité de culte." Purusartha: Sciences Sociales en Asie du Sud 5 (1981): 137-77.
Hess, Linda. "The Poet, the People, and the Western Scholar: Influence of a Sacred Drama and Text on Social Values in North India." Theatre Journal 40, no. 2 (May 1988): 236-53.
Hiltebeitel, Alf. The Cult of Draupadi. Vol. 1: From Gingee to Kuruksetra. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1988.
Hiltebeitel, Alf. "Draupadi's Hair." Purusartha: Sciences Sociales en Asie du Sud 5 (1981): 179-214.
Hiltebeitel, Alf. The Ritual of Battle: Krishna in the Mahabharata. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1976.
Hitchcock, John T. "The Idea of the Martial Rajput." In Traditional India: Structure and Change , ed. Milton Singer, 10-17. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1959.
Hudson, Dennis. "Examples of the Ritual Act of Sati." Manuscript compilation, n.d.
Hyde, Janice S. "Women's Village Networks: Marriage Distance and Marriage Related Folksongs." Paper presented at the Conference on Preservation of the Environment and Culture in Rajasthan, Rajasthan University, Jaipur, India, December 1987.
Inden, Ronald. Marriage and Rank in Bengali Culture. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1976.
Jacobson, Doranne, and Susan Snow Wadley. Women in India: Two Perspectives. Delhi: Manohar, 1977.
Jeffery, Patricia. Frogs in a Well: Indian Women in Purdah. London: Zed Press, 1979.
Jeffry, May Pauline. Ida S. Scudder of Vellore: The Life Story of Ida Sophia Scudder of Vellore. Mysore City: 1951.
Kakar, Sudhir. The Inner World: A Psycho-Analytic Study of Childhood and Society in India. New York: Oxford University Press, 1981.
Khare, R. S. "From Kanya to Mata in Aspects of the Cultural Language of Kinship in North India." In Concepts of Person: Kinship, Caste, and Marriage in India , ed. Akos Ostör, Lina Fruzetti, and Steve Barnett, 143-71. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1982.
Kinsley, David. Hindu Goddesses: Visions of the Divine Feminine in the Hindu Religious Tradition. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1986.
Kolff, Dirk H. A. "The Rajput of Ancient and Medieval North India: a warrior ascetic." Paper presented at the Conference on Preservation of the Environment and Culture in Rajasthan, Rajasthan University, Jaipur, India, December 1987.
Kothari, Komal. "Epics of Rajasthan." Paper presented at the Conference on Oral Epics, University of Wisconsin at Madison, July 1982 [Revised version published as "Performers, Gods, and Heroes in the Oral Epics of Rajasthan." In Oral Epics in India , ed. Stuart H. Blackburn, Peter J. Claus, Joyce B.
Flueckiger, and Susan S. Wadley, 102-17. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989].
Lalas, Sitaram. Rajasthani Sabd Kos . Vol. 4, pt. 3. Jodhpur: Caupasni Shiksha Samiti, 1978.
Luschinsky, Mildred S. "The Life of Women in a Village in North India." Ph.D. dissertation, Cornell University, 1962.
McGee, Mary. "Feasting and Fasting: The Vrata Tradition and Its Significance for Hindu Women." Ph.D. dissertation, Harvard Divinity School, 1987.
Mandelbaum, David G. Women's Seclusion and Men's Honor: Sex Roles in North India, Bangladesh, and Pakistan . Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1988.
Mani, Lata. "Multiple Mediations: Feminist Scholarship in the Age of Multi-National Reception." Inscriptions: Special Issue on Predicaments of Theory , 1-21. Santa Cruz: University of California, 1989.
Marglin, Frédérique Apffel. "Types of Sexual Union and Their Implicit Meanings." In The Divine Consort: Radha and the Goddesses of India , ed. John Stratton Hawley and Donna Marie Wulff, 298-315. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1982.
Marglin, Frédérique Apffel. Wives of the God-King: The Rituals of the Devadasis of Puri . Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1985.
Marriott, McKim, and Ronald B. Inden. "Towards an Ethnosociology of South Asian Caste Systems." In The New Wind: Changing Identities in South Asia , ed. Kenneth David, 227-38. The Hague: Mouton, 1977.
Mayer, Adrian C. Caste and Kinship in Central India: A Village and Its Region . Berkeley: University of California Press, 1970.
Mehta, Rama. "Purdah Among the Oswals of Mevar." In Separate Worlds: Studies of Purdah in South Asia , ed. Hanna Papanek and Gail Minault, 139-63. Delhi: Chanakya Publications, 1982.
Meister, Michael. "Regional Variations in Matrka Conventions." Artibus Asia 47, nos. 3-4 (1986): 233-46.
Meyer, Eveline. Ankalaparmecuvari: A Goddess of Tamilnadu, Her Myths and Cult . Stuttgart: Steiner Verlag, 1986.
Minturn, Leigh, and John Hitchcock. The Rajputs of Khalapur, India . New York: John Wiley and Sons, 1960.
M. N. M. The Hind Rajasthan . Privately published tribute to H. H. Maha Raol Shri Pratabsingh Gulabsinghji, Bansda, 1896.
Nainsi ri Khyat. Ed. Acarya Jinvijay Muni. Vol. 1. Jodhpur: Rajasthan Oriental Research Institute, 1960.
Nandy, Ashis. "The Human Factor." Illustrated Weekly of India , 17 January 1988, 20-23.
Narayana Rao, Velcheru. "Epics and Ideologies: Six Telegu Epics." In Another Harmony: New Essays on the Folklore of India , ed. Stuart H. Blackburn and A. K. Ramanujan, 131-64. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1986.
Obeyesekere, Gananath. The Cult of the Goddess Pattini . Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1984.
Obeyesekere, Gananath. Medusa's Hair: An Essay on Personal Symbols and Religious Experience . Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1981.
O'Flaherty, Wendy Doniger. Siva: The Erotic Ascetic . Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1973.
O'Flaherty, Wendy Doniger. Women, Androgynes, and Other Mythical Beasts . Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1980.
Ojha, Gaurishankar Hirachand. Rajputane ka Itihas . Vol. 2. Ajmer: Vedic Yantralaya, 1932.
Ortner, Sherry. "On Key Symbols." American Anthropologist 75 (1973): 1338-46.
Papanek, Hanna, and Gail Minault, eds. Separate Worlds: Studies of Purdah in South Asia . Delhi: Chanakya Publications, 1982.
Pocock, David F. Kanbi and Patidar: A Study of the Patidar Community of Gujarat . London: Oxford University Press, 1972.
Rajan, Rajeshwari Sundar. "The Subject of Sati, Pain, and Death in the Contemporary Discourse on Sati." Yale Journal of Criticism , Vol. 3, no. 2, Spring 1990.
Ramanujan, A. K. Speaking of Siva . Middlesex: Penguin Books, 1973.
Ramanujan, A. K. "Two Realms of Kannada Folklore." In Another Harmony: New Essays on the Folklore of India , ed. Stuart H. Blackburn and A. K. Ramanujan, 41-75. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1986.
Ramanujan, A. K. "On Women Saints." In The Divine Consort: Radha and the Goddesses of India , ed. John Stratton Hawley and Donna Marie Wulff, 316-24. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1982.
Reinich, Marie-Louise. Les dieux et les hommes: Etudes des cultes d'un village du Tirunelveli, Inde du Sud . Cahiers de l'homme, n.s. 18: Ethnologie-Géographie-Linguistique. Paris: Mouton, 1975.
Reynolds, Holly Baker. "An Auspicious Married Woman." In The Powers of Tamil Women , ed. Susan Snow Wadley, South Asia Series, no. 6, 35-60. Syracuse: Syracuse University, 1980.
Roghair, Gene H. The Epic of Palnadu: A Study and Translation of Palnati Virula Katha, a Telugu Oral Tradition from Andhra Pradesh India . Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1982.
Roy, Manisha. Bengali Women . Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1975.
Rudolph, Susanne Hoeber, and Lloyd I. Rudolph. "The Political Modernization of an Indian Feudal Order: An Analysis of Rajput Adaptation in Rajasthan." In Essays on Rajputana: Reflections on History, Culture, and Administration , 38-78. Delhi: Concept Publishing, 1984.
Rudolph, Susanne Hoeber, and Lloyd I. Rudolph. "Rajput Adulthood: Reflections on the Amar Singh Diary." In Essays on Rajputana: Reflections on History, Culture, and Administration , 177-210. Delhi: Concept Publishing, 1984.
Rudolph, Susanne Hoeber, and Lloyd I. Rudolph. "Rajputana under British Paramountcy: The Failure of Indirect Rule." In Essays on Rajputana: Reflections on History, Culture, and Administration , 3-37. Delhi: Concept Publishing, 1984.
Sangari, K., and S. Vaid. "Sati in Modern India: A Report." Economic and Political Weekly , 1 August 1981, 1285-88.
"Sati: A Pagan Sacrifice." India Today , 15 October 1987, 58-61.
Sax, William. Mountain Goddess: Gender and Politics in a Himalayan Pilgrimage . Oxford: Oxford University Press, forthcoming.
Sax, William. "Village Daughter, Village Goddess: Residence, Gender, and Politics in a Himalayan Pilgrimage." Paper presented at the conference, Women's Rites, Women's Desires, Harvard University, April 1988.
Sharma, Arvind. Sati: Historical and Phenomenological Essays . Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, 1988.
Sharma, Dasaratha. Rajasthan through the Ages . Bikaner: Rajasthan State Archives, 1966.
Sharma, G. N. Social Life in Medieval Rajasthan [1500-1800 A.D.] . Agra: Lakshmi Narain Agarwal, 1968.
Shulman, David Dean. The King and the Clown in South Indian Myth and History . Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1985.
Shulman, David Dean. Tamil Temple Myths: Sacrifice and Divine Marriage in the South Indian Saiva Tradition . Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1980.
Shyamaldas, Kaviraj. Vir Vinod . 4 vols. Udaipur, privately published by the Mewar darbar [ca. 1884] [Reissued. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, 1986].
Singer, Milton. "The Great Tradition in a Metropolitan Center: Madras." In Traditional India: Structure and Change , 141-82. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1959.
Somani, Ram Vallabh. History of Mewar (From earliest times to 1751 A.D.) . Jaipur: C. L. Ranka, 1976.
Sontheimer, Gunther D. "Hero and Sati-stones in Maharasthra." In Memorial Stones: A Study of Their Origin, Significance, and Variety , ed. S. Settar and Gunther D. Sontheimer, 261-81. Dharwad: Institute of Art History, Karnatak University and Heidelberg: South Asia Institute, University of Heidelberg, 1982.
Sontheimer, Gunther D. Pastoral Deities in Western India , trans. Anne Feldhaus. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989.
Stangroom, Cynthia Packart. "The Development of the Medieval Style in Rajasthan: Ninth and Tenth Centuries." Ph.D. dissertation, Harvard University, 1988.
Stern, Henri. "Le temple d'Eklingji et le royaume du Mewar (Rajasthan), (rapport au divin, royauté et territoire: sources d'une maîtrise)." Purusartha: Sciences Sociales en Asie du Sud 10 (1986): 15-30.
Tambiah, S. J. "From Varna to Caste through Mixed Unions." In The Character of Kinship , ed. Jack Goody, 191-229. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1973.
Tarabout, Giles. Sacrifier et donner à voir en pays Malabar: Les fêtes de temple au Kerala (Inde du Sud) . Paris: Ecole Française d'Extrême-Orient, 1986.
Thapar, Romila. "Death and the Hero." In Mortality and Immortality: The Anthropology and Archaeology of Death , ed. S. C. Humphries and Helen King, 293-315. London: Academic Press, 1982.
Thapar, Romila. "In History." Seminar 342, "Sati: a symposium on widow immolation and its social context" (February 1988): 14-19.
Thurstan, Edgar. Castes and Tribes of Southern India . 7 vols. Madras: Government Press, 1909.
Tod, James. Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan . 2 vols. 1829. Reprint. Delhi: M. N. Publishers, 1978.
Turner, Victor. "Betwixt and Between: The Liminal Period in Rites de Passage." In The Forest of Symbols: Aspects of Ndembu Religion , 93-111. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1967.
Turner, Victor. "Symbols in Ndembu Ritual." In The Forest of Symbols: Aspects of Ndembu Religion , 19-47. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1967.
van Buitenen, J. A. B. The Bhagavadgita in the Mahabharata . Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1981.
Vidal, Dennis. "Le puits et le sanctuaire. Organisation cultuelle et souveraineté dans une ancienne principauté de l'Himalaya occidentale." Purusartha: Sciences Sociales en Asie du Sud 10 (1986): 31-54.
Wadley, Susan Snow. "Power in Hindu Ideology and Practice." In The New Wind: Changing Identities in South Asia , ed. Kenneth David, 133-55. The Hague: Mouton, 1977.
Wadley, Susan Snow. Shakti: Power in the Conceptual Structure of Karimpur Religion . Chicago: Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago, 1975.
Wadley, Susan Snow., ed. The Powers of Tamil Women . South Asia Series, no. 6. Syracuse: Syracuse University, 1980.
Weisman, Steven R., "Indian Widow's Death at Pyre Creates Shrine," New York Times , 19 September 1987.
Yalman, Nur. Under the Bo Tree: Studies in Caste, Kinship, and Marriage in the Interior of Ceylon . Berkeley: University of California Press, 1967.
Zaehner, R. C. Hindu Scriptures . London: Dent, 1966.
Ziegler, Norman. "Action, Power, and Service in Rajasthani Culture: A Social History of the Rajputs of Middle Period Rajasthan." Ph.D. dissertation, University of Chicago, 1973.