Book Reviews : MUKULIKA BANERJEE, The Pathan Unarmed: Opposition and Memory in the North West Frontier, Delhi, Oxford University Press, 2001, pp. 238, Rs 595

Abstract

times the complexity overwhelms even her efforts to create a straightforward narrative. Her discussion of temple myths and legends brings to bear on the topic some of the methodology and style of scholars of religion and religious anthropology, particularly Victor Turner. The theoretical introduction, on the other hand, relies in large part on the work of anthropologist-historians of the subaltern and post-colonial schools. Although these discussions are quite up-to-date and always interesting, the changes of approach and even language are sometimes disconcerting. In any case, the book brings a new and greatly improved standard to the studies of temple towns and temple administration.