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This is the first major study of a Sikh community in Central Punjab to appear in the modern anthropological literature. Perhaps because this historically and economically important people and region have been so long neglected, they present certain important contradictions or paradoxes in terms of commonly accepted generalization about Indian village life. Thus, the villagers describe their Sikh religion as Hindu, yet insist that it forbids observance of caste

Anthropology of Eastern Religions: Ideas, Organizations, and Constituencies is a comparative survey of the world's major religious traditions as professional enterprises and, often, as social movements. Documenting the principle ideas behind Eastern religious traditions from an anthropological perspective, Murray J. Leaf demonstrates how these ideas have been used in building internal organizations that mobilize or fail to mobilize external support.

Leaf reviews LAND REFORMS IN INDIA, VOLUME 6: Intervention for Agrarian Capitalist Transformation in Punjab and Haryana edited by Sucha Singh Gill; LAND REFORMS IN INDIA, VOLUME 7: Issues of Equity in Rural Madhya Pradesh edited by Praveen K. Jha; and LAND REFORMS IN INDIA, VOLUME 8: Performance and Challenges in Gujarat and Maharashta edited by Ghanshyam Shah and D. C. Sah.

Leaf reviews 'Post-Green Revolution Rural Punjab: A Profile of Economic and Socio-Cultural Change (1965-95)' by B. L. Abbi and Kesar Singh.