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A vivid account of ritual, power, and social inequality in rural India.

Table of Contents

Contents
Acknowledgments
Note on Transliteration
1. Introduction
Part I. Dominance in the Making
2. Who Is the ?r?
3. The Ash Theft
4. Making Social Distinctions
5. Habit, History, and Thevar Dominance
Part II. Remaking the Village
6. Gods of Yanaimangalam
7. Making Good at Kotai Festivals
9. Hindu Nationalism and Dalit Reform: Two Responses to Thevar Domination
10. Conclusion
Glossary
Notes
References Cited
Index

About the Author

Diane P. Mines is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Appalachian State University and co-editor of Everyday Life in South Asia (IUP, 2002).

Reviews

"In a move still unusual in anthropology, Mines examines relations of power by providing perspectives from a variety of people who are differently, and differentially, empowered... These points are made with an extraordinary richness of ethnographic detail." Sara Dickey