29-4- 1938. Small card covered pamphlet 30pp. 18 x 12cm. Paper browned and friable An argument stating the pro's and con's of early marriage in India. When referring to this item please quote stockid 173097. More
Manchester. Manchester Uni. Press. 1966. Reprint. Maps, tables, black and white illustrations, xii + 279pp, references, index, neat name of prior owner front free endpaper, worn and discoloured dustjacket, few closed tears repaired with sello tape, small tears edges with minor loss, dustjacket now protected, otherwise a good copy. Discusses..... More
Manchester. Manchester University Press. 1966. Reprint. Maps, tables, black and white illustrations, xii + 279pp, references, index, name of a prior owner front free endpaper, worn and discoloured dustjacket with a couple closed tears, otherwise very good. Discusses the social organisation of a famous Indian tribal people, the Konds of..... More
Berkeley. University of California Press. 1971. 238pp, index, paperback, covers little creased. An intensive study of a multi-caste village in South India provides the background for this unusual description of contemporary change in a traditional society that is reacting to outside pressures. When referring to this item please quote stockid..... More
Calcutta. Association Press. 1920. Black and white photographic plates, 270pp, appendix, glossary, index, endpapers and pages evenly browned, original wrappers marked and worn, fragile spine chipped and torn with considerable loss, upper cover and first page loose, one other page loose prior owner's name and notes on title page. The..... More
Bombay. Allied Publishers. 1971. Reprint. Preface by Margaret Mead, 343pp, appendices, glossary, bibliography, index, cloth binding lightly marked, dustjacket worn, now protected, few pages with light browning, otherwise contents sound and clean. The author a European psychologist attempts to explain the essential difference between the Hindu and European mind. When..... More
New Delhi. Associated Publishing House. 1968. Tables, including folding, xii + 142pp, index, endpapers patchily browned, small bookseller's label upper pastedown, spine faded, cloth covers patchily faded. Originally formed thesis for Ph.D. submitted to the University of Agra. Concentrates on occupational changes from 1945-55. When referring to this item please..... More
Princeton, N.J. Van Nostrand. n.d. (c. 1963). xi + 335pp, appendices, bibliography, indices, dustjacket worn and soiled, now protected, binding trifle worn extremities, front free endpaper little damaged, contents clean and sound. A comparison between the Chinese, Indian and American views of life. "The primary purpose of this book is..... More
Cambridge. Cambridge University Press. 1984. Black and white portrait frontispiece, xiv + 189pp, notes, bibliography (with few small pencil marks by titles), index, trifle sunned and rubbed dustjacket, contents sound and clean, a good copy. "Based on a field and textual study of the Chamars of Lucknow, the book examines..... More
New Delhi. Orient Longman. 1970. x + 380pp, index, good copy in worn dustjacket. The confrontation in India between the age-old caste system and the parliamentary form of government based on universal suffrage vividly illustrates the manner in which old and historical, societies get involved in, and provide content to..... More
London. Asia Publishing House. 1964. Tables, map, black and white photographic illustrations, 215pp, index, bibliography, notes, dustjacket lightly soiled, now protected with acid free, fully recyclable polypropylene covering, a good copy. "The investigation cuts through the complex fabric of the Indian rural life . . . on the history of..... More
Oxford. Clarendon. 1993. Black and white figures, table, viii + 184pp, bibliography, index, very good in little worn paperback. A comparative study of caste, placing caste-organised communities in the context of complex agrarian societies generally. When referring to this item please quote stockid 153373. More
Bombay. Asia Publishing. 1967. Tables, 120pp, appendices, bibliography, endpapers browned, very light wear binding, gilt lettering spine. When referring to this item please quote stockid 41511. More
London. Asia Publishing House. 1970. Reprint. viii + 171pp, index, endpapers patchily browned, a little pencilling few leaves, name prior owner in ink front free endpaper, a good copy in price clipped dustjacket worn with a little loss at head of spine. Eleven essays on problems such as the role..... More
London. Asia Publishing House. 1970. Reprint. viii + 171pp, index, cloth covers patchily faded, otherwise a good copy in worn and chipped dustjacket. Eleven essays on problems such as the role of caste in politics, the removal of casteism and untouchability, the egalitarian and secular ideals of the Indian Constitution..... More