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Volume 53 - Issue 4 - November 1994

Book Reviews—South Asia

Vasantotsava: The Spring Festivals of India: Texts and Traditions. By Leona M. Anderson. Reconstructing Indian History and Culture, No. 4. New Delhi: D.K. Printworld (P) Ltd., 1993. xi, 254 pp.

Colonizing the Body: State Medicine and Epidemic Disease in Nineteenth-Century India. By David Arnold. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993. xii, 354 pp. $45.00 (cloth); $18.00 (paper).

Sanskrit Criticism. By V. K. Chari. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1990. xiv, 302 pp. $35.00.

Gender and Political Economy: Explorations of South Asian Systems. Edited by Alice W. Clark. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1993. viii, 375 pp. - Where Women Are Leaders: The SEWA Movement in India. By Kalima Rose. London: Zed Books Ltd.286 pp. $55.00 (cloth); $19.95 (paper).

India's Industrial Cities: Essays in Economy and Demography. By Nigel Crook. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1993. vi, 181 pp. $21.00. - Power, Poverty and Poison: Disaster and Response in an Indian City. By James Manor. New Delhi: Sage Publications, 1993. 197 pp.

Internationalization of Ethnic Conflict. Edited by K. M. de Silva and R. J. May. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1991. 211 pp. $55.00.

Ghosts: Life and Death in North India. By Ruth S. Freed and Stanley A. Freed. Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History, No. 72. Seattle: American Museum of National History, 1993. 396 pp. $40.00.

South Asians in East Africa: An Economic and Social History, 1890–1980. By Robert G. Gregory. Boulder: Westview Press, 1993. xiii, 410 pp. $76.00.

Medieval India 1: Researches in the History of India 1200–1750. Edited by Irfan Habib. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1992. vii, 225 pp. $16.95.

India's Partition: Process, Strategy and Mobilization. Edited by Mushirul Hasan. Oxford in India Readings. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1993. ix, 426 pp. $32.00.

The Broken World of Sacrifice: An Essay in Ancient Indian Ritual. By J. C. Heesterman. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1993. x, 296 pp. $60.00 (cloth); $24.95 (paper).

Mughal Architecture: An Outline of its History and Development (1526–1858). By Ebba Koch. Munich: Prestel-Verlag, 1991. 160 pp. $25.95.

Unfolding a Maṇḍala: The Buddhist Cave Temples at Ellora. By Geri H. Malandra. SUNY Series in Buddhist Studies. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1993. xx, 348 pp. $29.95.

Cassette Culture: Popular Music and Technology in North India. By Peter Manuel. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 1993. xix, 302 pp. $22.00.

An “Agreed” Frontier: Ladakh and India's Northernmost Borders, 1846–1947. By Parshotam Mehra. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1992. xii, 248 pp. $23.00.

The Life and Teachings of Sai Baba of Shirdi. By Antonio Rigopoulos. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1993. xxviii, 466 pp. $59.50 (cloth); $19.95 (paper).

Religious Nationalism: Hindus and Muslims in India. By Peter van der Veer. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994. xvi, 247 pp. $40.00 (cloth); $15.00 (paper).

Masks of Conquest: Literary Study and British Rule in India. By Gauri Vishwanathan. New York: Columbia University Press, 1989. x, 206 pp. $32.50.

Ritual Art and Knowledge: Aesthetic Theory and Zoroastrian Ritual. By Ron G. Williams and James W. Boyd. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1993. xv, 200 pp. $39.35.

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