Traces of castes and other social strata in the Maldives: a case study of social stratification in a diachronic perspective (ethnographic, historic, and linguistic evidence)

This paper explores the social stratification of Maldivian society, with particular focus on its history and traces of earlier alleged caste systems and slavery as well as their impact on Maldivian society, and the implications this fact had for their social structure. I will argue that some anthropologically remarkable traces of earlier social stratification, such as slavery and the caste system, can still be found on the islands. The same holds true for the social structure of the island Minicoy, part of the Sultanate Maldives until the beginning of the 16th century, which now belongs to India. I will demonstrate that while the middle castes have largely disappeared, the upper level of the caste hierarchy (which has survived in the local elite), the lower castes and certain groups of former slaves have been much more resistant to social developments and structural changes in the society

Causatives

Historische fonologie en morfologie van het Indo-Europee

The Vedic root variants of the type CaC // C(C)ā: Morphophonological features and syntactic patterns

Descriptive and Comparative Linguistic

Book review : R. Singh (ed.), The yearbook of South Asian languages and linguistics 2002

Historische fonologie en morfologie van het Indo-Europee

Between passive and reflexive: The Vedic presents with the suffix -ya-

Historische fonologie en morfologie van het Indo-Europee

Length vacillation -iiy-//-iy- and related phenomena in Vedic

Historische fonologie en morfologie van het Indo-Europee

The Sanskrit -yet-optative: A formation not yet recorded in Sanskrit grammars

Historische fonologie en morfologie van het Indo-Europee

Two calculi for a description of the Vedic verbal system

Historische fonologie en morfologie van het Indo-Europee

The Vedic type syáti revisited

Historische fonologie en morfologie van het Indo-Europee

Book review : J. Bronkhorst, Tradition and argument in classical Indian linguistics : the Bahiranga-paribhānā in the Paribhānenduśekhara

Historische fonologie en morfologie van het Indo-Europee