Book Reviews—South Asia
Guru English: South Asian Religion in a Cosmopolitan Language. By Srinivas Aravamudan. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2006. 336 pp. $60.00 (cloth); $22.95 (paper).
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- 17 August 2007, pp. 859-861
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Afghanistan: A Bibliography. Compiled byHeather Bleaney and María Ángeles Gallego. Leiden: Brill, 2006. xii, 398 pp. $188 (cloth).
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- 27 February 2007, pp. 238-240
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Ecological Nationalisms: Nature, Livelihoods, and Identities in South Asia. Edited by Gunnel Cederlöf and K. Sivaramakrishnan. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2005. 376 pp. $50.00 (cloth).
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- 26 April 2007, pp. 566-568
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Chinese Society in the Age of Confucius (1000–250 BC): The Archaeological Evidence. By Lothar von Falkenhausen. Los Angeles: Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, University of California, Los Angeles, 2006. xxiii, 555 pp. $70.00 (cloth); $40.00 (paper).
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- 29 October 2007, pp. 1129-1132
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In Amma's Healing Room: Gender and Vernacular Islam in South India. By Joyce Burkhalter Flueckiger. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2006. 320 pp. $65.00 (cloth); $24.95 (paper).
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- 17 August 2007, pp. 861-863
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Precolonial and Colonial Punjab: Society, Economy, Politics, and Culture: Essays for Indu Banga. Edited by Reeta Grewal and Sheena Pall. New Delhi: Manohar, 2005. 498 pp. Rs 1095 (cloth).
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- 26 April 2007, pp. 568-571
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Marco Polo's China: A Venetian in the Realm of Khubilai Khan. By Stephen G. Haw. London: Routledge, 2006. 224 pp. $115.00 (cloth).
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- 27 February 2007, pp. 240-242
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Writing Taiwan: A New Literary History. Edited by David Der-wei Wang and Carlos Rojas. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2006. x, 412 pp. $89.95 (cloth); $24.95 (paper).
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- 29 October 2007, pp. 1132-1134
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Personal Matters: Women's Autobiographical Practice in Twentieth-Century China. By Lingzhen Wang. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2004. xii, 280 pp. $58.00 (cloth).
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- 29 October 2007, pp. 1134-1137
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The Madman's Middle Way: Reflections on the Reality of the Tibetan Monk Gendun Chopel. By Donald S. LopezJr. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005. xiv, 258 pp. $35.00 (cloth).
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- 27 February 2007, pp. 242-244
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A Portrait of the Hindus: Balthazar Solvyns and the European Image of India, 1760–1824. By Robert L. Hardgrave Jr. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. 568 pp. $99.00 (cloth).
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- 26 April 2007, pp. 571-572
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Was Hinduism Invented? Britons, Indians, and Colonial Construction of Religion. By Brian K. Pennington. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. 260 pp. $47.50 (cloth).
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- 17 August 2007, pp. 863-866
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Reliving Karbala: Martyrdom in South Asian Memory. By Syed Akbar Hyder. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006. xi, 261 pp. $55.00 (cloth).
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- 26 April 2007, pp. 572-574
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Shanghai Love: Courtesans, Intellectuals, and Entertainment Culture, 1850–1910. By Catherine Yeh. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2006. x, 430 pp. $60.00 (cloth).
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- 29 October 2007, pp. 1137-1139
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Of Love and War: A Chayavad Anthology. Translated by David Rubin. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2005. 144 pp. $19.95/Rs 475 (cloth).
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- 17 August 2007, pp. 866-869
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A Grammar of Mangghuer: A Mongolic Language of China's Qinghai-Gansu Sprachbund. By Keith W. Slater. London: RoutledgeCurzon, 2003. xviii, 382 pp. $150 (cloth).
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Gurudev's Drumming Legacy: Music, Theory, and Nationalism in the Mrdang aur Tabla Vadanpaddhati of Gurudev Patwardhan. By James Kippen. SOAS Musicology Series. Aldershot, U.K.: Ashgate, 2006. xiv, 346 pp. $99.95 (cloth).
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- 26 April 2007, pp. 574-576
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State and Religion in China: Historical and Textual Perspectives. By Anthony C. Yu. Chicago: Open Court Books, 2006. xiv, 192 pp. $18.95 (paper).
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- 29 October 2007, pp. 1139-1140
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Tibetan Buddhists in the Making of Modern China. By Gray Tuttle. New York: Columbia University Press. 2005. xviii, 337 pp. $45.00 (cloth).
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- 27 February 2007, pp. 246-247
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Colonial Cambodia's “Bad Frenchmen”: The Rise of French Rule and the Life of Thomas Caraman, 1840–87. By Gregor Muller. New York: Routledge, 2006. 312 pp. $135.00 (cloth).
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- 17 August 2007, pp. 869-871
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