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Absent Lord: Ascetics and Kings in a Jain Ritual. By Lawrence A. Babb. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996. xii, 244 pp. $48.00 (cloth); $16.00 (paper). - Hierarchy and Its Discontents: Culture and the Politics of Consciousness in Caste Society. By Steven M. Parish. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1996. xxvi, 270 pp. $36.95 (cloth); $17.95 (paper).

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Absent Lord: Ascetics and Kings in a Jain Ritual. By Lawrence A. Babb. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996. xii, 244 pp. $48.00 (cloth); $16.00 (paper).
Hierarchy and Its Discontents: Culture and the Politics of Consciousness in Caste Society. By Steven M. Parish. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1996. xxvi, 270 pp. $36.95 (cloth); $17.95 (paper).

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The Journal of Asian Studies , Volume 56 , Issue 4 , November 1997 , pp. 1118 - 1119
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Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1997

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