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Volume 77 - Issue 2 - May 2018

Book Reviews—South Asia

Reading the Mahāvamsa: The Literary Aims of a Theravāda Buddhist History. By Kristin Scheible. New York: Columbia University Press, 2016. 240 pp. ISBN: 9780231171380 (cloth, also available as e-book).

Nation at Play: A History of Sport in India. By Ronojoy Sen. New York: Columbia University Press, 2015. 400 pp. ISBN: 9780231164900 (cloth, also available as e-book).

Death, Beauty, Struggle: Untouchable Women Create the World. By Margaret Trawick. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017. xviii, 284 pp. ISBN: 9780812249057 (cloth).

The Colonial Origins of Ethnic Violence in India. By Ajay Verghese. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2016. 296 pp. ISBN: 9780804795623 (cloth, also available in paper and as e-book).

Kashmir's Contested Pasts: Narratives, Sacred Geographies, and the Historical Imagination. By Chitralekha Zutshi. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2014. 368 pp. ISBN: 9780199450671 (cloth, also available as e-book).

Book Reviews—Southeast Asia

Urban Land Rent: Singapore as a Property State. By Anne Haila. Malden, Mass.: Wiley-Blackwell Press, 2016. 273 pp. ISBN: 9781118827673 (paper, also available in cloth and as e-book).

Man or Monster? The Trial of a Khmer Rouge Torturer. By Alexander Laban Hinton. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2016. 360 pp. ISBN: 9780822362739 (paper, also available in cloth and as e-book).

The Dance That Makes You Vanish: Cultural Reconstruction in Post-Genocide Indonesia. By Rachmi Diyah Larasati. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2013. 216 pp. ISBN: 9780816679942 (paper, also available in cloth and as e-book).

Coalitions of the Well-Being: How Electoral Rules and Ethnic Politics Shape Health Policy in Developing Countries. By Joel Sawat Selway. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015. xiii, 292 pp. ISBN: 9781107501225 (paper, also available in cloth and as e-book).

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