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Volume 41 - Issue 2 - February 1982

Book Reviews—South Asia

Sanskrit and Indian Studies: Essays in Honour of Daniel H. H. Ingalls. Edited by M. Nagatomi, B. K. Matilal, J. M. Masson, and E. C. Dimock Jr. Dordrecht: D. Reidel, 1980. xi, 260 pp. Bibliography of the Works of Professor Daniel H. H. Ingalls, Index. $39.50 (cloth).

Poems of Subramania Bharati: A Selection. Translated by Prema Nandakumar. New Delhi: Sahitya Akademi (UNESCO Collection of Representative Works, Indian Series), 1977. xii, 230 pp. Notes, Further Reading. Rs 25.

Social Protest in India: British Protestant Missionaries and Social Reforms, 1850–1900. By G. A. Oddie. Columbia, Mo.: South Asia Books, 1978. vi, 283 pp. Bibliography, Index. $17.50.

Dadabhai Naoroji Correspondence. Vol. 2. Edited by R. P. Patwardhan. Bombay: Allied Publishers (Dadabhai Naoroji Memorial Prize Fund), 1977. xlvi, 1,025 pp. Notes, Glossary, Index. Rs 200. (Distributed in the U.S. by South Asia Books, Columbia, Mo.)

Social Movements and Social Transformation: A Study of Two Backward Classes Movements in India. By: M. S. A. Rao. India: Macmillan Company of India, 1979. 256 pp. Appendixes, Bibliography, Author Index. $16 (cloth). (Distributed by South Asia Books, Columbia, Mo.)

Policy Planning for Agricultural Development. By Susanta K. Ray, Ralph W. CummingsJr., and Robert W. Herdt. New Delhi: Tata McGraw Hill, 1979. xv, 237 pp. Index. N.p.

Tamil Temple Myths: Sacrifice and Divine Marriage in the South Indian Śaiva Tradition. By David Dean Shulman. Princeton, N. J.: Princeton University Press, 1980. xvi, 471 pp. Bibliography, Index of Motifs, Index of Place Names and Local Deity Names. $30.

A Descriptive Bibliography of the Printed Texts of the Pācarātrāgama. Vol. 2. By H. Daniel Smith. Baroda: Oriental Institute (Gaekwad's Oriental Series, No. 168), 1980. xxxiii, 132 pp. Addenda and Corrigenda. Rs 41.

The Sweepers of Slaughterhouse: Conflict and Survival in a Karachi Neighbourhood. By Pieter Streefland. The Netherlands: Van Gorcum, 1979. 132 pp. Notes, Glossary, Bibliography. N.p. (Distributed by Humanities Press, Atlantic Highlands, NJ.)

The Political Economy of the Raj, 1914–1947: The Economics of Decolonization in India. By B. R. Tomlinson. London: Macmillan (Cambridge Commonwealth Series), 1979. xiv, 199 pp. Bibliography, Index. $37.50. (Distributed by Humanities Press, Atlantic Highlands, N.J.)

The Ambiguity of Ideology and Administrative Reform. By Krishna Kumar Tummala. Bombay: Allied Publishers, 1979. xi, 367 pp. Appendixes, Select Bibliography, Index. $12.50. (Distributed by South Asia Books, Columbia, Mo.).

Book Reviews—China and Inner Asia

Hindustani Music in the Twentieth Century. By Wim van der Meer. The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1980. xii, 252 pp. Chronology, Bibliography, Index, Music, Plates, Discography, Glossary. $58.

Book Reviews—Southeast Asia

Traditional Music in Modern Java: Gamelan in a Changing Society. By Judith Becker. Honolulu: The University Press of Hawaii, 1980. xvi, 254 pp. Appendix, Notes, Bibliography, Glossary, Index. $30.

Proto-Loloish. By David Bradley. London: Curzon Press (Scandinavian Institute of Asian Studies, Monograph Series, No. 39), 1979. xi, 452 pp. Bibliography. N.p.

Pasyon and Revolution: Popular Movements in the Philippines, 1840–1910. By Reynaldo Clemena Ileto. Quezon City: Ateneo de Manila University Press, 1979. 344 pp. $19.75 (cloth); $13.75 (paper). (Distributed by The Cellar Book Shop, Detroit, Mich.)

Issues in Malaysian Development. Edited by James C. Jackson and Martin Rudner. Singapore: Heinemann Educational Books (Asian Studies Association of Australia, Southeast Asia Publications Series No. 3), 1979. xiii, 418 pp. Maps, Tables, Figures, Index. N.p.

My Brother, My Executioner. By F. Sionil Jose. Quezon City: New Day Publishers, 1979. 187 pp. $8.25 (paper). (Distributed in U.S. by The Cellar Book Shop, Detroit, Mich.)

Ethnic Adaptation and Identity: The Karen on the Thai Frontier with Burma. Edited by Charles F. Keyes. Philadelphia: Institute for the Study of Human Issues, 1979. ix, 278 pp. References, Notes on Contributors, Index, Photographs. $19.50.

Theravāda Meditation: The Buddhist Transformation of Yoga. By Winston King. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1980. vii, 172 pp. Appendix, Bibliography, Index. N.p.

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Volume 41 - Issue 2 - February 1982

Book Reviews—South Asia

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