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Caitanya, Krsna, 219

Cambodia, 24 , 33 , 37 , 55

Caste: and agricultural labor, 130 -32;

and Brahmin women, 114 -17, 119 -20, 122 , 128 , 133 ;

and British colonialism, 179 ;

critique of, 15 , 16 , 176 -78, 179 -80, 189 , 240 , 241 -42, 244 ;

and domestic sphere, 128 ;

and lower-caste women, 114 , 130 -34;

popularity of Ramayana dependent on, 130 ;

and urbanization, 179 .

See also Brahmins, Sudras; Untouchables

Cattanar, Cittalai, 189

Censorship, 81 , 193

Chants, devotional, 236 -37

Chapman, George, 44

Chaudhuri, Nirad C., 137 -38, 143 , 151 , 152

Chauhan, Sabal Singh, 241

Childbirth, 7 , 119 -20, 122

China, 24 , 33 , 50

Christianity, 11 , 139 , 182 , 190 -91, 224 , 231 ;

allegorical vs. parabolic exegesis in, 211 -14

Cilappatikaram , 87 n25, 102

Citamparanar, A., 189 , 196 n6

Coburn, Thomas, 236 , 252 n5

Cologne, Gunther, 216 n10

Colonialism, British, 11 -12, 139 , 141 , 178 , 179 , 190

Comedy, 165 -66

Cosmogony, Buddhist, 53 -54, 56

Cowley, Abraham, 139

Crossan, John Dominic, 211 -14, 216 n10