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Reprint Corporation, 1969. (Original edition, Cal-
outta: Thacker, Spink, 1915). Although its anthropo-
metrically based views on Indian races are antiquated,
its maps of caste distributions and discussion of how
castes are regarded, often stereotypically, by Indians
themselves are useful.
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Schermerhom, R. A. Ethnic Plurality in India. Tuc-
son, Arizona: University of Arizona Press, 1978.
Focuses on 10 minorities: Scheduled Castes, Sched-
uled Tribes, seven religious minorities, and Chinese,
with emphases on identity fonnation and group mobil-
ity.
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Schwartzberg, Joseph E. “The Distribution of
Selected Castes in the North Indian Plain,” The Geo-
graphical Review. vol. 55, no.‘4, 1965, pp. 477-95
plus a large folded insert. Based on extensive field
research, this work employs acombination of maps
and graphs to indicate, at various scales, how castes
are distributed over a large part of northern India.
Schwartzberg, Joseph E., ed., A Historical Atlas of
South Asia. New York: Oxford University Press,
1992; updated edition (lst edition, Chicago: University
of Chicago Press, 1978.) Maps Indian perceptions of
their own geography at various periods, beginning in
Vedic times. For the modern period, maps show the
distribution of religions, sects, languages, dialects,
and castes based on various censuses from 1872 to
1961. Maps, graphs, and discusses ethnically related
disturbances throughout the past century, but particu-
larly in the postindependence period.
Singer, Milton and Bernard S.jColm, Structure and
Change in Indian Society. Chicago: Aldine Publishing
Co., 1968. (Also published through Current Anthro-
pology for the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthro-
pological Research, Inc., 1968, Viking Fund
Publications in Anthropology, No. 47.) Includes
numerous studies on caste, language, and social struc-
ture, among which several focus on intergroup
dynamics and recent social change.
K. S. Singh. The People of India: An Introduction.
Calcutta: Anthropological Survey of India, 1992. This
is the largely methodological introductory volume to
the Anthropological Sun/ey’s massive People of India
Project, begun in 1985 and destined to provide “a
brief, descriptive anthropological profile of all the
(4,635!) communities of India, studying the impact on
them of change and the development process and the
linkages that bring them together.”
K. S. Singh, ed., Tribal Movements in India (two vol-
umes). New Delhi: Manohar, 1982. Presents papers
given at a seminar organized by the Anthropological
Survey of India at which 36 ongoing tribal movements
were identified. Fourteen of these, all in the northeast,
are treated in volume one and the remainder, from
other regions, in volume two.
Smith, Donald Eugene, ed., South Asian Politics and
Religion. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University
Press, 1986. The four major sections of this excellent
anthology are “South Asia: Unity and Diversity,”
“India: The Politics of Religious Pluralism,” “Paki-
stan: The Politics of Islamic Identity,” and “Ceylon:
The Politics of Buddhist Resurgence.”
Sopher, David E., ed., An Exploration of India. Ithaca,
New York: Cornell University Press, 1980. Includes,
inter alia a critical overview of Indian regions by
Bharat L. Bhatt, a valuable study of linguistic bound-
aries by Charles J. Bennett, and a highly original over-
view of the regional patterning of culture in India by
the editor.
Wallace, Paul, ed., Region and Nation in India. New
Delhi: Oxford & IBH Publishing Co. and American
Institute of Indian Studies, 1985. Particularly useful
are a wide-ranging bibliographical and historiographic
essay on regionalism by N. Gerald Barrier and sub-
stantive essays on regional cultures by Ainslie T.
Embree and on linguistic states reorganization by
Joseph E. Schwartzberg.
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