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Nehru to the Nineties: The Changing Office of the Prime Minister of India. Edited by James Manor. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 1994. 261 pp. $49.95 (cloth); $25.95 (paper).
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Breath Becomes the Wind: Old and New in Karo Religion. By Simon Rae. Otago, New Zealand: University of Otago Press, 1994. viii, 304 pp. $59–00.
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Church Lands and Peasant Unrest in the Philippines: Agrarian Unrest in 20th Century Luzon. By Michael J. Connolly, S. J. Manila: Ateneo de Manila Press, 1992. vii, 232 pp.
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Contraceptive Use and Fertility in India: A Case Study of Gujarat. By Pravin Visaria, Leela Visaria, and Anrudh Jain. New Delhi: Sage, 1995. 264 pp. $35.00 (cloth). - Regulating Reproduction in India's Population: Efforts, Results, and Recommendations. By K. Srinivasan. New Delhi: Sage, 1995. 329 pp. $25.95 (cloth).
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Agents of Apocalypse: Epidemic Disease in the Colonial Philippines. By Ken De Bevoise. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995. xiv, 274 pp. $35.00.
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The Christians of Kerala: History, Belief and Ritual among the Yakoba. By Susan Visvanathan. Madras: Oxford University Press, 1993. xvii, 279 pp. $27.00 (cloth).
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The Ancestral Lords: Gender, Descent, and Spirits in a Northern Thai Village. By Michael R. Rhum. DeKalb: Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Northern Illinois University, 1994. vi, 202 pp. $15.00.
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Contours of Continuity and Change: The Story of the Bonda Highlanders. By Bikram Narayan Nanda. New Delhi: Sage Publications, 1994. 228 pp. $24.95 (cloth).
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Moral Knowing in a Hindu Sacred City: An Exploration of Mind, Emotion, and Self. By Steven M. Parish. New York: Columbia University Press, 1994. xii, 342 pp. $49.50 (cloth); $17.50 (paper). - The Rulings of the Night: Ethnography of Nepalese Shaman Oral Texts. By Gregory G. Maskarinec. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1995. xi, 276 pp. $65.50 (cloth); $22.95 (paper). - The Householder's World: Purity, Power, and Dominance in a Nepali Village. By John N. Gray. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1995. xv, 302 pp. Rs 450 (cloth).
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Officiële Bescheiden Betreffende de Nederlands-Indonesische Betrekkingen 1945–1950. Vol. 18 (March 1–May 31, 1949), and Vol. 19 (June 3–September 15, 1949). Edited by P. J. Drooglever and M. J. B. Schouten. ‘s-Gravenhage: Instituut voor Nederlandse Geschiedenis, 1993. xxix, 839 pp. Fl. 90 and 1994. xxviii, 839 pp. Fl. 95.
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Ganesha Statuary of the Kadiri and Sinbasari Periods: A Study of Art History. By Edi Sedyawati. Leiden: KITLV Press, 1994. xii, 368 pp. $39.00 (paper).
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Tidings of the King: A Translation and Ethnohistorical Analysis of the Rayavacakamu. By Philip B. Wagoner. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1993. xi, 263 pp. $38.00 (cloth).
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The Rise of the Goddess in the Hindu Tradition. By Tracy Pintchman. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1994. xii, 288 pp. $14.95 (cloth).
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Thai Tellings of Phra Malai: Texts and Rituals Concerning a Popular Buddhist Saint. By Bonnie Pacala Brereton. Tempe: Southeast Asia Program, Arizona State University, 1995. xiii, 252 pp. $24.95.
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Cambodia: The Legacy and Lessons of UNTAC. By Trevor Findlay. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995. xi, 238 pp. $39.95.
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Development Success in Asia Pacific: An Exercise in Normative-Pragmatic Balance. By A. H. Somjee and Geeta Somjee. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1995. ix, 222 pp. $59.95.
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A Modern History of Southeast Asia: Decolonization, Nationalism, and Separatism. By Clive J. Christie. London: I. B. Tauris, 1996. x, 286 pp. $59.50.
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The Vernacular Press and the Emergence of Modern Indonesian Consciousness (1855–1913). By Ahmat B. Adam. Ithaca, N.Y.: Southeast Asia Program, Cornell University, 1994. xiii, 206 pp. $16.00 (paper).
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In the Land of Lady White Blood: Southern Thailand and the Meaning of History. By Lorraine M. Gesick. Ithaca: Southeast Asia Program, Cornell University, 1995. 98 pp. $12.00 (paper).
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The Navel of the Perahu: Meaning and Values in the Maritime Trading Economy of a Butonese Village. By Michael Southon. Canberra: Department of Anthropology, Research School of Pacific Studies, Australian National University, 1995. xiv, 159 pp. Au$25.00.
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