‘ … Popular ideas about kingship and honor play an important role in shaping India's modern political culture. There is no one who has done more to explicate this than Pamela Price.... No one who wants to understand the character of … Indian politics should ignore this critical body of work.’
David Gilmartin, Professor, North Carolina State University
‘ ... Pamela Price makes an important contribution to the debates about the making of ... Indian culture, politics and the nature of state. [With] fresh insights ... Price gives us a much-needed synthesis of the different theoretical formulations on the historical origins of modernity of Indian society ... ’
G. K. Karanth, Centre for Study of Social Change and Development, Institute for Social and Economic Change, Bangalore
‘Pamela Price is one of the most astute analysts of continuity and change in the political cultures of south India... [With] her wide-ranging research and ... interpretative strategies, this volume makes a major contribution to the advance of historical methodologies that focus on the study of present-day political issues.’
David Ludden, Professor of Political Economy and Globalization and Chair of the Department of History, New York University
‘The essays in this volume ... have behind them the intellect of a historian, intimations of an anthropologist, insights of a sociologist and concerns of a political scientist. ... Pamela Price shows how cultural legacies, symbols, and values are important in our understanding the way in which social movements emerge....’
K. C. Suri, Professor, Department of Political Science, School of Social Sciences, University of Hyderabad