Ralph W Nicholas
Biographic Data
| ID | 103326 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ralph W Nicholas |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ralph W |
| FAMILY NAME | Nicholas |
| SIGNATURE | NICHOLAS R W |
| AFFILIATIONS | Michigan State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 39 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 15 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1963 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
M. K. Gandhi, N. K. Bose, and Bengali Village Society
N. K. Bose, a close disciple of Gandhi, was the author’s Indian mentor in anthropology and with respect to Gandhi’s social thought as well. Gandhi visualised a village society integrated by mutual interdependence but freed from the inequality of caste. The author’s fieldwork in West Bengal villages found two opposed ritual postures that were struck during the two most important community rituals of the year, that is, Gajan in the spring and Durga…
Śrāddha, impurity, and relations between the living and the dead
The Goddess Śītalā and Epidemic Smallpox in Bengal
Śītalā, Goddess of Smallpox, is the preeminent tutelary deity of villages in southwestern Bengal, and a goddess of the same name has a prominent role in Hindu pantheons throughout northern India. Her rise to importance is closely related to the history of smallpox, which was not recognized, in Ayurvedic medical texts, as a serious or fatal disease before the seventh century A.D. There is no evidence of the Goddess of Smallpox before the tenth to …
Kinship in Bengali Culture
Kinship in Bengali Culture
Kinship in Bengali Culture
Worship of the Goddess According to the Kālikāpurāṇa. Part I (Chapters 54–69). Translated, Introduced, and Annotated By K. R. Van Kooij. Leiden
Worship of the Goddess According to the Kālikāpurāṇa. Part I (Chapters 54–69). Translated, Introduced, and Annotated By K. R. Van Kooij. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1972. x, 197 pp. Indexes. D. gld. 36 - Volume 36 Issue 1
Symposium
Louis Charles Jean Dumont has been Directeur d'Etudes in the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes in Paris since 1955. From 1951 until 1955 he was Lecturer in Indian Sociology at the University of Oxford. He began field research in India—among a single Tamil-speaking caste—in 1949, when the post-war generation of Anglo-American anthropologists was undertaking fieldwork on Indian villages. He had been trained in indology, Sanskrit and Dravidian studie…
Social and Political Movements
The use of the word to refer to social and political phenomena first appeared in English in the early nineteenth century. The large-scale social changes and new forms of human distress that came with early industrialism were accom panied by a semantic reevaluation of such terms as capitalism, ideology, masses, culture, revolutionary, and many more (Williams 44, pp. 16-17). Movement came to be used to describe group responses to the social and cu…
A Reply to Beals and Siegel
General and Ethnology
Ritual Hierarchy and Social Relations in Rural Bengal
Social Change in Modern India
Ranjana
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Village factions and political parties in rural West Bengal
(1963). Village factions and political parties in rural West Bengal. Journal of Commonwealth Political Studies: Vol. 2, No. 1, pp. 17-32
Social and Political Movements
The use of the word to refer to social and political phenomena first appeared in English in the early nineteenth century. The large-scale social changes and new forms of human distress that came with early industrialism were accom panied by a semantic reevaluation of such terms as capitalism, ideology, masses, culture, revolutionary, and many more (Williams 44, pp. 16-17). Movement came to be used to describe group responses to the social and cu…
Social Change in Modern India
Village factions and political parties in rural West Bengal
(1963). Village factions and political parties in rural West Bengal. Journal of Commonwealth Political Studies: Vol. 2, No. 1, pp. 17-32
The Goddess Śītalā and Epidemic Smallpox in Bengal
Śītalā, Goddess of Smallpox, is the preeminent tutelary deity of villages in southwestern Bengal, and a goddess of the same name has a prominent role in Hindu pantheons throughout northern India. Her rise to importance is closely related to the history of smallpox, which was not recognized, in Ayurvedic medical texts, as a serious or fatal disease before the seventh century A.D. There is no evidence of the Goddess of Smallpox before the tenth to …
Śrāddha, impurity, and relations between the living and the dead
Symposium
Louis Charles Jean Dumont has been Directeur d'Etudes in the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes in Paris since 1955. From 1951 until 1955 he was Lecturer in Indian Sociology at the University of Oxford. He began field research in India—among a single Tamil-speaking caste—in 1949, when the post-war generation of Anglo-American anthropologists was undertaking fieldwork on Indian villages. He had been trained in indology, Sanskrit and Dravidian studie…
Ritual Hierarchy and Social Relations in Rural Bengal
Village factions and political parties in rural West Bengal
(1963). Village factions and political parties in rural West Bengal. Journal of Commonwealth Political Studies: Vol. 2, No. 1, pp. 17-32
Ranjana
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Ritual Hierarchy and Social Relations in Rural Bengal
Social Change in Modern India
A Reply to Beals and Siegel
General and Ethnology
Social and Political Movements
The use of the word to refer to social and political phenomena first appeared in English in the early nineteenth century. The large-scale social changes and new forms of human distress that came with early industrialism were accom panied by a semantic reevaluation of such terms as capitalism, ideology, masses, culture, revolutionary, and many more (Williams 44, pp. 16-17). Movement came to be used to describe group responses to the social and cu…
Worship of the Goddess According to the Kālikāpurāṇa. Part I (Chapters 54–69). Translated, Introduced, and Annotated By K. R. Van Kooij. Leiden
Worship of the Goddess According to the Kālikāpurāṇa. Part I (Chapters 54–69). Translated, Introduced, and Annotated By K. R. Van Kooij. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1972. x, 197 pp. Indexes. D. gld. 36 - Volume 36 Issue 1
Symposium
Louis Charles Jean Dumont has been Directeur d'Etudes in the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes in Paris since 1955. From 1951 until 1955 he was Lecturer in Indian Sociology at the University of Oxford. He began field research in India—among a single Tamil-speaking caste—in 1949, when the post-war generation of Anglo-American anthropologists was undertaking fieldwork on Indian villages. He had been trained in indology, Sanskrit and Dravidian studie…
Kinship in Bengali Culture
Kinship in Bengali Culture
Kinship in Bengali Culture
Śrāddha, impurity, and relations between the living and the dead
The Goddess Śītalā and Epidemic Smallpox in Bengal
Śītalā, Goddess of Smallpox, is the preeminent tutelary deity of villages in southwestern Bengal, and a goddess of the same name has a prominent role in Hindu pantheons throughout northern India. Her rise to importance is closely related to the history of smallpox, which was not recognized, in Ayurvedic medical texts, as a serious or fatal disease before the seventh century A.D. There is no evidence of the Goddess of Smallpox before the tenth to …
M. K. Gandhi, N. K. Bose, and Bengali Village Society
N. K. Bose, a close disciple of Gandhi, was the author’s Indian mentor in anthropology and with respect to Gandhi’s social thought as well. Gandhi visualised a village society integrated by mutual interdependence but freed from the inequality of caste. The author’s fieldwork in West Bengal villages found two opposed ritual postures that were struck during the two most important community rituals of the year, that is, Gajan in the spring and Durga…
Sociology (11 works) · History (9 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · Anthropology (5 works) · Archaeology (5 works) · BENGAL (5 works) · History (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Bengali (4 works)