A study of various aspects of the traditional metaphysical doctrines of the Hindu Tradition, along with extensive book and article reviews

"According to Lord Louis Mountbatten, Kohima "will probably go down as one of the greatest battles in history." The battle took place in that part of the world where India and Burma meet, an area of "hellish jungle-mountains." In the spring of 1944 the Japanese army began what Toyko radio called "The March on Delhi"; by summer, the remnants of thsoe "invincible" Japanese troops were struggling back across Burma: at the twin battles of Kohima and Imphal they had met British and Indian forces head-on. They were beaten in a crucial action which has ranked with Alamein, Midway, and Stalingrad as one of the great turning points of World War II. Arthur Swinson has drawn on many unpublished documents and diaries from Japanese as well as Allied sources."--Jacket.

Louis Dumont's modern classic, here presented in an enlarged, revised, and corrected second edition, simultaneously supplies that reader with the most cogent statement on the Indian caste system and its organizing principles and a provocative advance in the comparison of societies on the basis of their underlying ideologies. Dumont moves gracefully from the ethnographic data to the level of the hierarchical ideology encrusted in ancient religious texts which are revealed as the governing conception of the contemporary caste structure. On yet another plane of analysis, homo hierarchicus is contrasted with his modern Western antithesis, homo aequalis. This edition includes a lengthy new Preface in which Dumont reviews the academic discussion inspired by Homo Hierarchicus and answers his critics. A new Postface, which sketches the theoretical and comparative aspects of the concept of hierarchy, and three significant Appendixes previously omitted from the English translation complete this innovative and influential work.

By combining the techniques of intellectual history and social psychology Professor Hutchins provides a new perspective for an understanding of the intellectual atmosphere of British imperialism in India in the nineteenth century. The author stresses that the illusion of permanence began some years before the Great Mutiny of 1857, although it was the Mutiny that made the subsequent imperialistic attitude rigid. His source materials include the writings of travelers, diarists, civil servants, soldiers, and retired officials; such literature as Jane Eyre, A Passage to India, Oakfield by William Arnold, the Works of Kipling; letters, essays, newspaper articles, and records of the Parliamentary hearings following the Mutiny. Originally published in 1967. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.