Lionel Caplan
Biographic Data
| ID | 80765 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lionel Caplan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lionel |
| FAMILY NAME | Caplan |
| SIGNATURE | CAPLAN L |
| AFFILIATIONS | SOAS University of London |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 44 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 267 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 43 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1966 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| H-INDEX | 11 |
Certain knowledge: The encounter of global fundamentalism and local Christianity in urban south India
Iconographies of Anglo-Indian Women: Gender Constructs and Contrasts in a Changing Society
Of late, increasing attention has focused on (mainly male) constructions of women in colonial India. On the one side, it has been noted how European women were frequently held responsible and disparaged for upsetting the comparatively relaxed relationships existing between British (especially males) and Indians (especially females) up to the late eighteenth century. Seen as the staunchest upholders (if not the keenest advocates) of racial distinc…
Cupid in colonial and post‐colonial South India: Changing ‘marriage’ practices among Aanglo‐Indians in Madras
Gifting and receiving: Anglo-Indian charity and its beneficiaries in Madras
This article attempts to further the study of gifting in India by examining both the donors and recipients of charity in a contemporary urban context. Considering the case of Anglo-Indians in Madras, many of whom have been the objects of philanthropy since the colonial period, it explores various dimensions of this activity today. For one thing, it notes the highly personalised character of charity, which contributes to the definition and realisa…
The Good Parsi: The Fate of a Colonial Elite in a Postcolonial Society
The politics of cultural performance
Warrior Gentlemen: `Gurkhas' in the Western Imagination
Preface Abbreviations Chapter 1. Introduction: Discovering Gurkhas Chapter 2. Gurkhas at Home: The Ecology of Military Service Chapter 3. Officering Gurkhas: The Culture of Command Chapter 4. Representing Gurkhas: The Rhetoric of Martiality Chapter 5. Courageous Gurkhas: The Making of Warrior Gentlemen Chapter 6. Conclusion: Gurkha Fictions and Political Realities References Index
Life is only abroad, not here' the culture of emigration among Anglo-Indians in Madras
The permanent emigration to the West of perhaps half the Anglo‐Indian population since Independence has had profound consequences for those left behind in India. This article examines the situation of Anglo‐Indians in Madras city and finds that a large segment of the community (the ‘artisan class') has evolved a lifestyle and a mode of self‐definition which centres to an inordinate degree on going abroad, amounting to a culture of emigration. Thi…
Creole World, Purist Rhetoric: Anglo-Indian Cultural Debates in Colonial and Contemporary Madras
This article examines the 'postcolonialist' argument that, in considering the colonial encounter, analytical attention is most appropriately directed to emergent creolized cultures. Focusing on the Anglo-Indians, a 'hybrid' population in Madras, south India, over a period of several centuries, it demonstrates the porosity of cultural as well as social boundaries and the diversity of cultural practices both within and across the lines dividing the…
Bravest of the Brave: Representations of 'The Gurkha' in British Military Writings
The legendary Gurkhas have inspired a considerable literature about their character, quality and exploits under British command. Some years ago, after I returned from fieldwork in an area of east Nepal inhabited by the Limbu people, many of whom had served in Gurkha regiments, I began to read some of this literature for background purposes. It struck me then, although not nearly so forcibly as it did later when I had read Edward Said (1978), and …
From tribe to peasant? The Limbus and the Nepalese state
This article's context is the distinction inform and meaning of land tenure systems as between tribes and peasants, and the role of the state in the transformation of traditionally inalienable tribal lands into alienable private property. The historical circumstances which have shaped and transformed the economy and culture of a particular tribal population - the Limbus of east Nepal - are examined. There is analysis of the programme of land refo…
Class and Culture in Urban India: Fundamentalism in a Christian Community
The recent explosive growth of fundamentalist forms of Christianity has been a striking development in the Third World. This book is an ethnography of an urban Protestant community in India, traces the emergence of this kind of religiosity and shows how it now challenges the liberal doctrines and practices introduced by the missionaries and still preferred today by indigenous church and community leaders. Fundamentalism therefore appears as a spe…
Studies in Religious Fundamentalism
Class and Culture in Urban India: Fundamentalism in a Christian Community
Christianity and Culture Change in India
Studies in Religious Fundamentalism
This book, which brings together nine studies of fundamentalism in disparate religions and regional contexts, examines the specific circumstances nurturing such beliefs and practices, and explores the
Fundamentalism Pursued
Bridegroom Price in Urban India: Class, Caste and 'Dowry Evil' Among Christians in Madras
The classical notion of dowry as stridhanam-a daughter's wedding settlement-is no longer an adequate descriptive model of marriage payments in contemporary urban India. Nowadays the term refers also, indeed more so, to a typically large cash transfer by the bride's household to that of her prospective spouse. Though widely condemned as 'dowry evil', this practice is spreading, especially among the urban well-to-do. The payment of 'bridegroom pric…
Class and Christianity in South India: Indigenous Responses to Western Denominationalism
Sociologists of western religion have devoted much time and effort to delineating the principal characteristics of the denomination. The discussion has emerged very largely from the distinction drawn in 1912 by Troeltsch between church and sect. The latter is represented as radical and egalitarian, at odds with the society of which it is a part, and demanding total commitment from its followers. By comparison, the former is hierarchic and conserv…
Caste and castelessness among South Indian Christians
Social mobility in metropolitan centres: Christians in Madras city
Christian and Hindu Terminology: A Study in Their Mutual Relations with Special Reference to the Tamil Area
Social Stratification in Rural Kumaon
The Gurungs of Nepal: Conflict and Change in a Village Society
Class and Urban Migration in South India: Christian Elites in Madras City
Bridegroom Price in Urban India: Class, Caste and 'Dowry Evil' Among Christians in Madras
The classical notion of dowry as stridhanam-a daughter's wedding settlement-is no longer an adequate descriptive model of marriage payments in contemporary urban India. Nowadays the term refers also, indeed more so, to a typically large cash transfer by the bride's household to that of her prospective spouse. Though widely condemned as 'dowry evil', this practice is spreading, especially among the urban well-to-do. The payment of 'bridegroom pric…
The politics of cultural performance
Warrior Gentlemen: `Gurkhas' in the Western Imagination
Preface Abbreviations Chapter 1. Introduction: Discovering Gurkhas Chapter 2. Gurkhas at Home: The Ecology of Military Service Chapter 3. Officering Gurkhas: The Culture of Command Chapter 4. Representing Gurkhas: The Rhetoric of Martiality Chapter 5. Courageous Gurkhas: The Making of Warrior Gentlemen Chapter 6. Conclusion: Gurkha Fictions and Political Realities References Index
Creole World, Purist Rhetoric: Anglo-Indian Cultural Debates in Colonial and Contemporary Madras
This article examines the 'postcolonialist' argument that, in considering the colonial encounter, analytical attention is most appropriately directed to emergent creolized cultures. Focusing on the Anglo-Indians, a 'hybrid' population in Madras, south India, over a period of several centuries, it demonstrates the porosity of cultural as well as social boundaries and the diversity of cultural practices both within and across the lines dividing the…
Bravest of the Brave: Representations of 'The Gurkha' in British Military Writings
The legendary Gurkhas have inspired a considerable literature about their character, quality and exploits under British command. Some years ago, after I returned from fieldwork in an area of east Nepal inhabited by the Limbu people, many of whom had served in Gurkha regiments, I began to read some of this literature for background purposes. It struck me then, although not nearly so forcibly as it did later when I had read Edward Said (1978), and …
Class and Culture in Urban India: Fundamentalism in a Christian Community
Caste and castelessness among South Indian Christians
Iconographies of Anglo-Indian Women: Gender Constructs and Contrasts in a Changing Society
Of late, increasing attention has focused on (mainly male) constructions of women in colonial India. On the one side, it has been noted how European women were frequently held responsible and disparaged for upsetting the comparatively relaxed relationships existing between British (especially males) and Indians (especially females) up to the late eighteenth century. Seen as the staunchest upholders (if not the keenest advocates) of racial distinc…
Gifting and receiving: Anglo-Indian charity and its beneficiaries in Madras
This article attempts to further the study of gifting in India by examining both the donors and recipients of charity in a contemporary urban context. Considering the case of Anglo-Indians in Madras, many of whom have been the objects of philanthropy since the colonial period, it explores various dimensions of this activity today. For one thing, it notes the highly personalised character of charity, which contributes to the definition and realisa…
Cash and Kind: Two Media of 'Bribery' in Nepal
The Magars of Banyan Hill
Social Stratification in Rural Kumaon
Land and Social Change in East Nepal: A Study of Hindu Tribal Relations
The Santal: A Tribe in Search of a Great Tradition
The Changing Brahmans: Associations and Elites Among the Kanya-Kubjas of North India
Cupid in colonial and post‐colonial South India: Changing ‘marriage’ practices among Aanglo‐Indians in Madras
Administration and Politics in a Nepalese Town: The Study of a District Capital and Its Environs
Social mobility in metropolitan centres: Christians in Madras city
Christian and Hindu Terminology: A Study in Their Mutual Relations with Special Reference to the Tamil Area
Muslim Merchants: The Economic Behavior of an Indian Muslim Community
Les Gurungs: Une Population himalayenne du Nepal
Life is only abroad, not here' the culture of emigration among Anglo-Indians in Madras
The permanent emigration to the West of perhaps half the Anglo‐Indian population since Independence has had profound consequences for those left behind in India. This article examines the situation of Anglo‐Indians in Madras city and finds that a large segment of the community (the ‘artisan class') has evolved a lifestyle and a mode of self‐definition which centres to an inordinate degree on going abroad, amounting to a culture of emigration. Thi…
From tribe to peasant? The Limbus and the Nepalese state
This article's context is the distinction inform and meaning of land tenure systems as between tribes and peasants, and the role of the state in the transformation of traditionally inalienable tribal lands into alienable private property. The historical circumstances which have shaped and transformed the economy and culture of a particular tribal population - the Limbus of east Nepal - are examined. There is analysis of the programme of land refo…
Studies in Religious Fundamentalism
Class and Christianity in South India: Indigenous Responses to Western Denominationalism
Sociologists of western religion have devoted much time and effort to delineating the principal characteristics of the denomination. The discussion has emerged very largely from the distinction drawn in 1912 by Troeltsch between church and sect. The latter is represented as radical and egalitarian, at odds with the society of which it is a part, and demanding total commitment from its followers. By comparison, the former is hierarchic and conserv…
The Magars of Banyan Hill
Kinship Organization in India
The Santal: A Tribe in Search of a Great Tradition
Pignède's Les Gurungs: A Commented Summary
Les Gurungs: Une Population himalayenne du Nepal
Some Political Consequences of State Land Policy in East Nepal
Sociology for India
Himalayan Village: An Account of the Lepchas of Sikkim
Rural Sociology in India
Land and Social Change in East Nepal: A Study of Hindu-Tribal Relations
The Changing Brahmans: Associations and Elites Among the Kanya-Kubjas of North India
Land and Social Change in East Nepal: A Study of Hindu Tribal Relations
Cash and Kind: Two Media of 'Bribery' in Nepal
The Multiplication of Social Ties: The Strategy of Credit Transactions in East Nepal
Change and Continuity in India's Villages
Tradition, Rationality, and Change: Essays in Sociology of Economic Development and Social Change
Muslim Merchants: The Economic Behavior of an Indian Muslim Community
Class and Urban Migration in South India: Christian Elites in Madras City
Resources and Population: A Study of the Gurungs of Nepal
Administration and Politics in a Nepalese Town: The Study of a District Capital and Its Environs
Social mobility in metropolitan centres: Christians in Madras city
Christian and Hindu Terminology: A Study in Their Mutual Relations with Special Reference to the Tamil Area
Social Stratification in Rural Kumaon
The Gurungs of Nepal: Conflict and Change in a Village Society
Class and Christianity in South India: Indigenous Responses to Western Denominationalism
Sociologists of western religion have devoted much time and effort to delineating the principal characteristics of the denomination. The discussion has emerged very largely from the distinction drawn in 1912 by Troeltsch between church and sect. The latter is represented as radical and egalitarian, at odds with the society of which it is a part, and demanding total commitment from its followers. By comparison, the former is hierarchic and conserv…
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