General Editor's Preface -- Preface -- Introduction -- PART ONE: THE STANDING AND THE MOVING -- The Rise of Social Anthropology in India (1774-1972): A Historical Appraisal -- Indian Civilization: New Images of the Past for a Developing Nation -- Deified Men and Humanized Gods: Some Folk Bases of Hindu Theology -- Prestations and Prayers: Two Homologous Systems in Northern India -- Power in Hindu Ideology and Practice -- Gods, Kings, and the Caste System in India -- Hierarchy and Equivalence in Jaffna, North Sri Lanka: Normative Codes as Mediator -- Toward an Ethnosociology of South Asian Caste Systems -- Method and Theory in the Sociology of Louis Dumont: A Reply -- Flexibility in Central Indian Kinship and Residence -- PART TWO: THE MOVING AND THE STANDING -- Role Analysis and Social Change: With Special Reference to India -- Agricultural Labor Unions: Some Socioeconomic and Political Considerations -- Caste Elements Among the Muslims of Bihar -- Ecological Adaptation to Technology - Ritual Conflict and Leadership Change: The Santal Experience -- The Santalization of the Santals -- Region, Religion, and Language: Parameters of Identity in the Process of Acculturation -- Identity Choice and Caste Ideology in Contemporary South India -- PART THREE: DISCUSSIONS -- The IXth International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences Symposium on Changing Identities in South Asia -- Epilogue -- Biographical Notes -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects.