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The article reviews the book "Mémorial Ojihara Yutaka. Studia Indologica," edited by T. Yagi and M. Hara.

The article reviews the book "Gods Beyond Temples," edited by Harsha V. Dehejia.

Clearly, then, current cow-protectionist rhetoric, which often invokes vegetarianism as a central element of "Indian culture", reflects neither the extant historical record nor contemporary food practices (p. 165). First, it is apparent that many people who identify or are identified as nonvegetarian may eat meat only rarely, while those who identify as vegetarian may in fact eat meat on occasion, for instance, to signal their cosmopolitan sophistication. [Extracted from the article]

This book fills this knowledge gap by conducting both quantitative and qualitative research studies on support service workers in India's IT industry. What seems to be missing in Chakraborty's book, in contrast, is how India's support service workers have organised and resisted the structural exploitation of their jobs in the IT industry or the wider society. Dr. Chakraborty, the author of this book, has written the best and most comprehensive study on India's support service workers to date. [Extracted from the article]

Reviews the book 'Agrarian Environments: Resources, Representation, and Rule in India,' edited by Arun Agrawal and K. Sivaramakrishnan.

Reviews the book 'Of Myths and Movements: Rewriting Chipko Into Himalayan History,' by Haripriya Rangan.

What follows is a fascinating study of the philological projects of Nilaka ha Dik ita and how the influence of these works permeated all aspects of the Smarta-'Saiva tradition and helped to reify the identity of the community. One of the most interesting and at times perplexing approaches to Fisher's work is her emphasis on the public nature of sectarian theology. Fisher explains that by "public", she refers to the process of theologies leaving the monasteries and temples in order to reify itself in contradistinction to its competitors. [Extracted from the article]

Steven Wilkinson's Army and Nation presents an all-too-rare case study of apparently successful civil–military relations [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Reviews the book 'Agrarian Change and the New Technology in India,' by Biplab Dasgupta.

Reviews the book 'Mughal Administration in Golconda,' by J.F. Richards.

The article reviews the book "Status and Sacredness: A General Theory of Status Relations and an Analysis of Indian Culture," by Murray Milner Jr.

The article reviews the book "Ports and Their Hinterlands in India 1700-1950," edited by Indu Banga.

The article reviews the book "Indian Paintings and Drawings From the Collection of Howard Hodgkin," by Andrew Topsfield and Milo Cleveland.

Reviews the book 'Competing Equalities: Law and the Backward Classes in India,' by Marc Galanter.

The article presents information on the book "Research in Family Planning," edited by Clyde V. Kiser. This book is a collection of papers presented at the conference on research in family planning, which was held at Carnegie International Centre in New York City from October 13-19, 1960. There are studies about India, Asiatic countries other than India and the Middle East, United States, Latin America and Europe. It includes research in methods of fertility control, about acceptability of methods, problems of measurement, problems of research design and problems of motivation and communication. On the whole the book is very comprehensive and useful. It is a step in the right direction and must be read by all those who are at present engaged in the implementation of family planning programmes with one caution that methods to be employed depend upon the culture and ethics of each country and in this field methods and programmes of other countries cannot be adopted without proper thinking and adjustment.

Reviews the book "Caste in Modern India and Other Essays," by M. N. Srinivas.