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Interpreting Indian Society: A Monistic Alternative to Dumont's Dualism

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 March 2011

McKim Marriott
McKim Marriott
Affiliation:
University of Chicago

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The Journal of Asian Studies , Volume 36 , Issue 1 , November 1976 , pp. 189 - 195
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Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1976

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35 “Hierarchy Purified,” p. 632.