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Volume 58 - Issue 1 - February 1999

Book Reviews—Japan

Modern Japanese Thought. Edited by Bob Tadashi Wakabayashi. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. vii, 403 pp. $59.95 (cloth); $18.95 (paper).

Studies in Modern Japanese Literature: Essays and Translations in Honor of Edwin McClellan. Edited by Dennis Washburn and Alan Tansman. Ann Arbor: Center for Japanese Studies, The University of Michigan, 1997. xiii, 429 pp. $67.50.

Hirohito and War: Imperial Tradition and Military Decision Making in Prewar Japan. By Peter Wetzler. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1998. xi, 294 pp. $38.00.

Book Reviews—Korea

North Korea after Kim Il Sung. Edited by Dae-Sook Suh and Chae-Jin Lee. Boulder, Colo: Lynne Rienner, 1998.

Book Reviews—South Asia

Sufi Heirs of the Prophet: The Indian Naqshbandiyya and the Rise of the Mediating Sufi Shaykh. By Arthur F. Buehler. Foreword by Annermarie Schimmel. Studies in Comparative Religion. Frederick M. Denny, Series Editor. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1998. xxvii, 312 pp.

The Dam and the Nation: Displacement and Resettlement in the Narmada Valley. Edited by Jean Dreze, Meera Samson, and Satyajit Singh. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1998. ix, 339 pp. $32.00 (cloth).

Untouchable Pasts: Religion, Identity and Power among a Central Indian Community, 1780–1950. By Saurabh Dube. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1998. xviii, 308 pp. $23.95 (paper).

Indian Music and the West. By Gerry Farrell. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997. xi, 241 pp. $60.00(cloth).

Akbar and His India. Edited by Irfan Habib. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1987. ix, 316 pp. $32.00 (cloth).

Population, Gender and Politics: Demographic Change in Rural India. By Roger Jeffery and Patricia Jeffery. Contemporary Asia Series, number 3. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. xvi, 278 pp. $59.95 (cloth); $22.00 (paper).

Whose Interests are Supreme? Organizational Politics in the Civil Courts in India. By Robert S. Moog. Association for Asian Studies monograph, number 54. Ann Arbor: Association for Asian Studies, 1997. xii, 217 pp. $33.00 (cloth); $26.50 (member price).

Attar of Roses and Other Stories from Pakistan. By Tahira Naqvi. Boulder, Colo.: Lynne Rienner, 1998. 145 pp. $25.00 (cloth); $15.95 (paper).

Society and Space: Colonialism, Nationalism, and Postcolonial Identity in Sri Lanka. By Nihal Perera. Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 1998. 217 pp. $49.00 (cloth).

A Question of Balance: Labour, Management and Society. By E. A. Ramaswamy. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1997. xxii, 267 pp. $23.95 (cloth).

A Poem at the Right Moment: Remembered Verses from Premodern South India. Collected and translated by Velcheru Narayana Rao and David Shulman. Voices from South Asia Series, No. 10. Berkeley: University of California, 1998. xiii, 211 pp. $45.00 (cloth); $16.95 (paper).

The Foreign Policy of Pakistan: Ethnic Impacts on Diplomacy. By Mehtab Ali Shah. London: I. B. Taurus, 1997. xx, 267 pp. $59.50 (cloth).

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