Articles by M N Srinivas

INTRODUCTION BY way of introduction, I would like to say a few words about my encounters with Hassan Raja Rao, and my relationship with Edwin Thumboo, I first met Raja Rao when he visited our house on College Road in Mysore in the early 1930s. He came to meet my eldest brother, Parthasarathy (known to his friends as Pachu), and he was accompanied by his French wife. He was in a white 'kurta' and 'dhoti' worn the north Indian way. Pachu was a staunch follower of the social reformer and mystic. Pandit Taranath, and Raja Rao may have wanted to talk about Pandit Taranath with Pachu. Anyway, some time later, I read an account of Raja Rao's interview with Pandit Taranath in the ASIA magazine, published from New York.

Gandhi's Religion Gandhi regarded the Gita us his "mother's milk" but, strange as it may seem he found in it support for non-violence, a discovery which seems puzzling to say the least. His freewheeling interpretations he carried to other religions besides Hinduism.

On Living in a Revolution M N Srinivas Against the backdrop of the broad changes that have taken place since 1947 the author argues that India has moved from a period in which many important changes occurred, by and large non-violently, to a period of extremely rapid and violent change. The country is today faced with a series of crises, inter-linked and feeding on each other.

Seeing Society from Botton Up BERNARD COHN of the University of Chicago enjoys a high reputation among anthropologists and sociologists specialising on India. He has published several valuable papers on social and cultural change among the Chamars of Madhopur (in eastern UP) and on the history of the Benares region generally. He has also been interested in the analysis of regions in their historical context, in the study of the censuses and their effects on social structure as perceived by Indians, and in problems of modern Indian historiography. Finally, the general question of the relation between anthropology and history obviously interests him greatly, the first three essays of this book being devoted to it. Thanks to the work of scholars such as Cohn the need for a rapprochement between anthropologists and historians is now widely realised. A new academic animal is emerging as a result, the anthropologist- turned-historian, and the rarer, historian- turned-anthropologist.

Politics and Society in Karnataka M N Srinivas M N Panini Karnataka, in contrast to Tamil Nadu and Kerala, has not been hospitable to radical social move- ments. The seemingly dramatic political changes in Karnataka since the 1970s thus present a sharp contrast to the conservative social order, and demand an explanation.