Book Reviews—South Asia
This Fissured Land: An Ecological History of India. By Mahadav Gadgil and Ramachandra Guha. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993. xiv, 274 pp. $35.00 (cloth); $12.00 (paper).
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Global Migrants, Local Lives: Travel and Transformation in Rural Bangladesh. By Katy Gardner. Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1995. xv, 301 pp. $55.00 (cloth).
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The Making of a New ‘Indian’ Art: Artists, Aesthetics and Nationalism in Bengal, c. 1850–1920. By Tapati Guha-Thakurta. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992. xxvii, 351 pp. $85.00 (cloth). - Cinema and the Urban Poor in South India. By Sara Dickey. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993. xiv, 213 pp. £30.00 (cloth).
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Sati, the Blessing and the Curse: The Burning of Wives in India. Edited by John Stratton Hawley. New York: Oxford University Press, 1994. xiii, 214 pp. $39.95 (cloth).
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Rajiv Gandhi and Rama's Kingdom. By Ved Mehta. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1994. xii, 194 pp. $20.00 (cloth).
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Public Faces, Private Voices: Community and Individuality in South India. Comparative Studies on Muslim Societies, 20. By Mattison Mines. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994. x, 232 pp. $18.00 (paper).
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Art and Nationalism in Colonial India 1850–1922: Occidental Orientations. By Partha Mitter. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994. xxix, 475 pp. $89.95 (cloth).
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The Vernacular Veda: Revelation, Recitation, and Ritual. By Vasudha Narayanan. Columbia, S.C.: The University of South Carolina Press, 1994. xvii, 265 pp. $42.95 (cloth).
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Judging the State: Courts and Constitutional Politics in Pakistan. By Paula Newberg. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995. xi, 284 pp. $54.95 (cloth).
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- 26 March 2010, pp. 759-760
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The Construction of Religious Boundaries: Culture, Identity, and Diversity in the Sikh Tradition. By Harjot Oberoi. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1994. xiv, 494 pp. $49.95 (cloth); $17.95 (paper).
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The Āśrama System: The History and Hermeneutics of a Religious Institution. By Patrick Olivelle. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993. xxii, 274 pp. $49.95 (cloth).
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From the Seams of History: Essays on Indian Women. Edited by Bharati Ray. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1995. xii, 294 pp. $29.95 (cloth).
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Artisans and Industrialization: Indian Weaving in the Twentieth Century. By Tirthankar Roy. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1993. xi, 243 pp. $23.00 (cloth). - The Bombay Textile Strike, 1982–83. By Hubert W. M. van Wersch. Bombay: Oxford University Press, 1992. xxiv, 463 pp. $39.95 (cloth). - India's Textile Sector: A Policy Analysis. By Sanjiv Misra. New Delhi: Sage Publications, 1993. 278 pp. $36.00 (cloth).
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A Historical Atlas of South Asia. Edited by Joseph E. Schwartzberg. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992 (second impression), xxxix, 376 pp.; 150 pp. of maps and plates. $250.00 (cloth).
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Classifying the Universe: The Ancient Indian Varṇa System and the Origins of Caste. By Brian K. Smith. New York: Oxford University Press, 1994. xv, 408 pp. $49.95 (cloth); $24.95 (paper).
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The Raja's Magic Clothes: Re-Visioning Kingship and Divinity in England's India. By Joanne Punzo Waghorne. University Park: Pennsylvania State Press, 1994. xxxiv, 285 pp. $49.50 (cloth).
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South Asia Approaches the Millennium: Reexamining National Security. Edited by Marvin G. Weinbaum and Chetan Kumar. Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 1995. xi, 245 pp. $65.50 (cloth).
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Book Reviews—Southeast Asia
In the Shadow of Mount Ramelau: The Impact of the Occupation of East Timor. By George J. Aditjondro. Leiden: Indonesian Documentation and Information Centre, 1995. 96 pp. $11.00. - East Timor at the Crossroads: The Forging of a Nation. Edited by Peter Carey and G. Carter Bentley. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1995. xx, 259 pp. $19.95.
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Political Legitimacy in Southeast Asia: The Quest for Moral Authority. Edited by Muthiah Alagappa. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1995. xv, 446 pp. $60.00 (cloth); $19.95 (paper). - Democracy and Development in Southeast Asia: The Winds of Change. By Clark D. Neher and Ross Marlay. Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 1995. xix, 220 pp. $54.95 (cloth).
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The Mekong Delta: Ecology, Economy, and Revolution, 1860–1960. By Pierre Brocheux. Madison: Monograph No. 12, Center for Southeast Asian Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1995. xix, 269 pp. $45.00 (cloth); $19.95 (paper).
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