Volume 117 - April 1985
Reviews of Books
The Konds: human sacrifice and religious change. By Barbara M. Boal. pp. xiv, 294, 33 illustrations, 5 Maps. Warminster, Wilts. Aris & Phillips Ltd., 1982. £16.00.
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Jinnah of Pakistan. By Stanley Wolpert. pp. xii, 421, 2 maps, 19 pl. New York etc., Oxford University Press, 1984. $24.95 (£22.50).
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Stones of empire: the buildings of the Raj. By Jan Morris, photographs and captions by Simon Winchester, pp. vi, 234 pp. Oxford, New York, Oxford University Press, 1983. £15.00
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Setting the East ablaze; Lenin's dream of an empire in Asia. By Peter Hopkirk. pp. 252, 27 pl., 2 maps. London, John Murray, 1984. £10.95.
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Die politische Stellung der Sikhs innerhalb der Indischen Nationalbewegung 1935–1947. By Christine Effenberg. (Beiträge zur Südasienforschung, Südasien-Institut Universität Heidelberg, Band 94.) pp [ii], 232. Wiesbaden, Franz Steiner Verlag, 1984. DM 44.
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The Buddhist philosophy of thought. By Alexander Piatigorsky. pp. xii, 227. London and Dublin, Curzon Press. Totowa, N.J., Barnes and Noble Books, 1984. £9.50
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Canal Irrigation in British India: perspectives on technological change in a peasant economy. By Ian Stone. (Cambridge South Asian Studies.) pp. xiv, 375, p pl., 4 maps. Cambridge etc., Cambridge University Press, 1984, £30.00.
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The Forest Monks of Sri Lanka: an anthropological and historical study. By Michael Carrithers. pp. xii, 306, 14 plates. Delhi etc., Oxford University Press, 1983. £17.00
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Ladakh: crossroads of high asia. By Janet Rizvi. pp. xii, 224, 32 plates, map (on endpapers). Delhi etc., Oxford Universisty Press, 1983. Rs. 140. £15.00
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The Assamese: religion, caste and sect in an Indian village. By Audrey Cantlie. (School of Oriental and African Studies, London Studies on South Asia, No. 3.) pp. xiii, 322, 14 maps. London and Dublin, Curzon Press, 1984. £10.50.
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Fischerei und Fischereiwirtschaft im nördlichen Ceylon: Standort und Lebensraum der Fischer im Norden der Tropeninsel. By Thomas Gläser. (Beiträge zur Südasien-Forschung, Südasien-Institut, Universität Heidelberg, Band 84.) pp. xv, 196, 43 pls. xxvi tables. Wiesbaden, Franz Steiner Verlag, 1983.
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Aspect of cultural history of Sikkim: studies in coinage. By P. K. Bhattacharyya. pp. xiv, 86 + errata slip, 14 plates, map (on endpapers). Calcutta and New Delhi, K. P. Bagchi & Co., 1984. Rs.90
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Tibetan paintings: a study of Tibetan thangkas 11th–19th centuries. By Pratapaditya Pal. pp. viii, 225, 115 colour plates, 12 monochrome illus. London and Pennsylvania, Philip Wilson Publishers Ltd for Ravi Kumar, Sotheby Publications, 1984. £42.50.
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Die buddhistische Briefliteratur Indiens. By Siglinde Dietz. pp. 509. Asiatische Forschungen, vol. 84. Otto Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden, 1984.
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Collected works of Alexander Csoma de Körös. 4 Vols. Edited by J. Terjék. Tibetan-English Dictionary, pp. lx, 351. front. £20.50. - A grammar of the Tibetan language. pp. xvi, 204 + syllabic scheme and Tibetan alphabet, pp. 40. Biographical booklet enclosed, pp. xxxii. £14.50. - Tibetan studies: being a reprint of the articles contributed to the Journal of The Asiatic Society of Bengal and Asiatic Researches, pp. ix, 459. £26.50. - Sanskrit-Tibetan-English vocabulary: being an edition and translation of the Mahāvyutpatti. pp. xxxvii, 390. £22.75. - Budapest, Akadémiai Kiadó, 1984. All 4 Vols., £72.00.
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Catalogue du Kanjur tibétain de l'édition de 'Jang sa-tham. Seconde partie. Texte en Translitération. By Yoshiro Imaeda. (Bibliographia Philologica Buddhica. Series Maior, IIb) pp. 112. Tokyo, International Institute for Buddhist Studies, 1984.
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Zwischen Reform und Rebellion: über die Entwicklung des Islams in Minangkabau (West Sumatra) zwischen den Beiden Reformbewegungen der Padri (1837) und der Modernisten (1908); ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der Islamisierung Indonesiens. By Werner Kraus. (Beiträge zur Südasienforschung, Südasien-Institut, Universität Heidelberg, Band 89.) pp. x, 236. Wiesbaden, Franz Steiner Verlag, 1984. DM 44.
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Contributions to the development of Tibetan Buddhist epistemology: from the eleventh to the thirteenth century. By Leonard W. J. van der Kuijp. (Alt- und Neu- Indische Studien herausgegeben vom Seminar für Kultur und Geschichte Indiens an der Universität Hamburg, 26.) pp. ix, 330. Wiesbaden, Franz Steiner Verlag GmbH, 1983. DM 42.
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Prince Jiṅ-Gim's textbook of Tibetan Buddhism: the Śes-bya rab-gsal (Jñeya-prakāśa) by 'Phags-pa Blo-gros rgyal-mtshan dPal-bzaṅ-po of the Sa-skya-pa. Translated and annotated by Constance Hoog. (Nisaba Religious Texts Translation Series Vol. 13). pp. x, 126. Leiden, E. J. Brill, 1983, Guilders 48.
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Karawitan: source readings in Javanese gamelan and vocal music, vol. 1. Edited by Judith Becker and Alan H. Feinstein. (Michigan Papers on South and Southeast Asia No. 23.) pp. xviii, 523 + interim bibliography and glossary. Ann Arbor, Michigan, Centre for South and Southeast Asian Studies Publications, University of Michigan, 1984. $36.50.
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