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R. S. McGregor(ed.): Devotional literature in South Asia: current research, 1985–1988. Papers of the fourth conference on devotional literature in New Indo-Aryan languages, held at Wolfson College, Cambridge, 1–4 September 1988. (University of Cambridge Oriental Publications, 46.) xvi, 320 pp. Cambridge etc.: Cambridge University Press, 1992. £55.
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Brian E. McKnight: Law and order in Sung China. (Cambridge Studies in Chinese History, Literature and Institutions.) xiv, 557 pp. Cambridge, etc.: Cambridge University Press, 1992. £60, $74.95.
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Takie Sugiyama Lebra(ed.): Japanese social organization. xi, 236 pp. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1992. $34 (paper $14.95). - Takie Sugiyama Lebra: Above the clouds: status culture of the modernJapanese nobility. xvii, 430 pp. Berkeley, Los Angeles and London: University of California Press, 1993. $45.
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Brian Stanley: The history of the Baptist Missionary Society. 1792–1992. xix, 564 pp. Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1992. £29.95.
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Richard H. Mitchell: Janus-faced justice: political criminals in imperial Japan. xvi, 235 pp. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1992. $30.
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R. Snell: The Hindi classical tradition: a Braj Bhāṣā reader. (South Asian Texts, no.2.) xv, 259 pp. London: School of Oriental and African Studies, 1991. £10.
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P. E. Hair, Adam Jones and Robin Law (ed.): Barbot on Guinea: the writings of Jean Barbot on West Africa, 1678–1712. (Hakluyt Society. Second Series, Vols. 175, 176.) cxxviii, 327 pp., front., 26 plates, vii, 328–916 pp., 30 plates. London: The Hakluyt Society, 1992. £55 the set.
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Ralph Russell: The pursuit of Urdu literature: a select history, ix, 285 pp. London: Zed Books Ltd, 1992. £36, $59.95 (paper £15.95, $29.95).
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Robert S. Wicks: Money, markets, and trade in early Southeast Asia: the development of indigenous monetary systems to A.D. 1400. (Studies on Southeast Asia.) xii, 354 pp. Ithaca, NY: Southeast Asia Program, Cornell University, 1992. $20.
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Frances W. Pritchett: The romance tradition in Urdu: adventures from the Dāstān of Amīr Ḥamzah. xii, 272 pp. New York: Columbia University Press, 1991. $40.50.
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Elizabeth Savage (ed.): The human commodity: perspectives on the Trans-Saharan slave trade. vii, 279 pp., London: Frank Cass, 1992. £25.
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Hue-Tam Ho Tai: Radicalism and the origins of the Vietnamese Revolution. x, 325 pp. Cambridge, Mass, and London: Harvard University Press, 1992. £23.25.
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Ann Feldhaus and Shankar Gopal Tulpule: In the absence of God: the early years of an Indian sect. x, 190. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1992. $30.
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Philip J. Jaggar (ed.): Papers in Honour of R. C. Abraham (1890–1963). (African Languages and Cultures, Supplement I.) ix, 202 pp., London: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, 1992. £15.
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Khing Hoc Dy: Contribution à I 'histoire de la littérature khmère. Vol. i: L'époque ‘classique’ (xve-xixe siècles). Vol. n: Ecrivains et expressions littéraires du Cambodge au xxème siècle. vi, 272 pp.; vi, 275 pp. Paris: Editions I'Harmattan, 1990, 1993.
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J. G. J. Ter Haar: Follower and heir of the Prophet: Shaykh Aḥmad Sirhindī (1564–1624) as mystic. (Publicaties van het Het Oosters Instituut, n.) xii, 183 pp. Leiden: Het Oosters Instituut, 1992. Guilders 60.
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Mamadou Diawara: La graine de la parole: dimension sociale et politique des traditions orales du royaume de Jaara (Mali), du xvème au milieu du xixème siècle. 189 pp., Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 1990. DM 48.
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Robert Cribb: Historical dictionary of Indonesia. (Asian Historical Dictionaries, no. 19.) xxiv, 663 pp. Metuchen, NJ and London: Scarecrow Press, Inc., 1992. £72.50. - Amarjit Kaur: Historical dictionary of Malaysia. (Asian Historical Dictionaries, no. 13.) xxi, 301 pp. Metuchen, NJ and London: Scarecrow Press, Inc., 1993. £37.50.
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Avril A. Powell: Muslims and missionaries in pre-Mutiny India. (London Studies on South Asia, no. 7.) x, 339 pp. Richmond, Surrey: Curzon Press, 1993. £35.
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Jeremy Coote and Anthony Shelton(ed.): Anthropology, art and aesthetics. (Oxford Studies in the Anthropology of Cultural Forms.) xiii, 281 pp. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1992. £45.
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