1st Edition

Images of Maharashtra A Regional Profile of India

Edited By N.K. Wagle Copyright 1980
160 Pages
by Routledge

160 Pages
by Routledge

160 Pages
by Routledge

First published in 1980, Images of Maharashtra presents the authors’ academic interests in defining the multifaceted personality of Maharashtra. All the papers were presented at the Annual Conferences of Maharashtra Studies Group of the Association for Asian Studies. They range over history, politics, agriculture, sociology, and religion. Milton Israel discusses M.R. Jayakar’s use of English... Read more

1. M.R. Jayakar and the Bombay Nationalist Press: The Struggle for Identity within a Nationalist Movement
Milton Israel

2. Governmental Response to Migration: Preferences for Local Residents in Bombay
Mary Fainsod Katzenstein

3. Some Urban Commercial Centres of the Western Deccan in the XVII Century
Balakrishna Govind Gokhale

4. Traditional Deshi Agriculture in Maharashtra
Donald Q. Innis

5. On Class, Caste and Hegemony: Classes in Rural Maharashtra
Jayant Lele

6. Region and Regionalism in the Study of Indian Politics: The Case of Maharashtra
Jayashree Gokhale-Turner

7. Subregional Religious Centres in the History of Maharashtra: The Sites Sacred to Ganesh
Laurence W. Preston

8. A Dispute between the Pancal Devajna Sonars and the Brahmanas of Pune regarding Social Rank and Ritual Privileges: A Case-Study of the British Administration of Jati Laws in Maharashtra, 1822–1825
Narendra K. Wagle

Biography

N.K. Wagle is Professor Emeritus at the Department of History, University of Toronto, Canada.