The Inner Conflict of Tradition: Essays in Indian Ritual, Kingship, and Society c19.s4.28
The Inner Conflict of Tradition: Essays in Indian Ritual, Kingship, and Society c19.s4.28
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27. And, one might add, in actual reality. One may compare contemporary "village festivals" involving or resulting in intervillage fighting. Intervillage fighting seems to be too much of a stereotype to be simply a question of a festival accidentally degenerating into a riot. The fighting seems to belong to the festival. See, e.g., A. R. Beals, "Conflict and Interlocal Festivals in a Southern Indian Region," *Journal of Asian Studies*, Supplement 23 (June 1964): 99–113.