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Volume 61 - Issue 2 - June 1998

Book Review

Gisèle Krauskopff and Marie Lecomte-Tilouine (ed.): Célébrer le pouvoir: Dasaī, une fête royal au Népal. 376pp. Paris: CNRS Éditions and Fondation de la Maison des Sciences de l’Homme, 1996.

Gurinder Singh Mann: The Goindval Pothis: the earliest extant source of the Sikh canon. xiv, 219pp. Cambridge, Mass.: Department of Sanskrit and Indian Studies, Harvard University, 1996. $35.

Christopher R. King: One language, two scripts: the Hindi movement in nineteenth century North India. xii, 232pp. Bombay, etc.: Oxford University Press, 1994 [1995]. £14.99.

Tariq Rahman: Language and politics in Pakistan. 300 pp., Plate. Karachi, etc.: Oxford University Press, 1996. £12.95.

Robert D. King: Nehru and the language politics of India. xxiv, 256 pp. Delhi, etc.: Oxford University Press, 1997. Rs.375, £13.99.

W. L. Smith: Bengali reference grammar. (Stockholm Oriental Textbook Series, no. l.) ix, 197 pp. Stockholm: Association of Oriental Studies, Stockholm University, 1997.

Tej K. Bhatia: Colloquial Hindi: the complete course for beginners. vii, 343 pp. Two 60-minute cassettes. London and New York: Routledge, 1996. £25.76.

Rachel Dwyer: Gujarati: a complete course for beginners. (Teach Yourself Series.) vii, 356 pp., cassette. London: Hodder Headline, 1995. £9.99. Casette £9.50.

R. Champakalashmi and S. Gopal (ed.): Tradition, dissent and ideology: essays in honour of Romila Thapar. viii, 356 pp. New Delhi, etc.: Oxford University Press, 1996. Rs. 570, £20.

Michael Hutt (ed.) Nepal in the nineties: versions of the past, visions of the future. (SOAS Studies on South Asia) xi, 172 pp. Delhi, etc.: Oxford University Press, 1994 [pub. 1995]. £10.99.

Chitta Panda: The decline of the Bengal zamindars, Midnapore 1870–1920. (Oxford University South Asian Studies Series.) x, 231 pp. Delhi, etc.: Oxford University Press, 1996. Rs. 450, £.99.

Ashis Nandy et al.: Creating a nationality: the Ramjanmabhumi movement and fear of the self. xv, 212 pp., map [on end papers]. Delhi, etc.: Oxford University Press: 1995. £12.99.

C. J. Fuller (ed.): Caste today. (SOAS Studies on South Asia. Understandings and Perspectives.) ix, 295 pp. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1996. £15.

Suranjan Das and Sekhar Bandopadhyay (ed.): Caste and communal politics in South Asia. (University of Calcutta Monographs, 8.) Calcutta and New Delhi: K. P. Bachi & Co., 1993. Rs. 200.

James Brow: Demons and development the struggle for community in a Sri Lankan village. (Hegemony and Experience: Critical Studies in Anthropology and History.) xviii, 218 pp. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1996, $45 (paper £19.95.)

Ramachandra Guha and Juan Martinez-Alier: Varieties of environmentalism: essays north and south. xxiii, 230 pp. London: Earthscan Publications, 1997. £14.95.

Roger Ballard (ed.): Desh Pardesh: the South Asian Presence in Britain. xviii, 296 pp. London: Hurst & Company, 1994. £25 (paper £9.95.)

East Asia - Pamela Kyle Crossley: The Manchus. (The Peoples of Asia.) xvi, 239 pp. Cambridge, Mass. and Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, £20, $29.95.

Helen Dunstan: Conflicting counsels to confuse the age: a documentary study of political economy in Qing China, 1644–1840. (Michigan Monographs in Chinese Studies, Vol.73.) 363 pp. Ann Arbor: Center For Chinese Studies, University of Michigan, 1996. $50.

Gregory B. Lee: Troubadours, trumpeters, troubled makers: lyricism, nationalism, and hybridity in China and its others. xvii, 278 pages. London: Hurst & Company, 1996. £30 (Paper £16.50).

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