Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society: Volume 115 - Issue 2

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Volume 115 - Issue 2 - April 1983

Reviews of Books

The Divyatattva of Raghunandana Bhaṭṭācārya: ordeals in classical Hindu law. Critically edited with English translation by Richard W. Lariviere. pp. xix, 280. New Delhi, Manohar, 1981. Rs. 100.

Traditions of the seven ṛṣis. By John E. Mitchiner. pp. XX, 351, front., map. Delhi, etc., Motilal Banarsidass, 1982. Rs. 125.

The structure of the world in Udayana's realism: a study of the Lakṣaṇāvalī and the Kiraṇāvalī. By Musashi Tachikawa. (Studies of Classical India, Vol. 4.) pp. xiv, 180. Dordrecht, etc., D. Reidel Publishing Co., [c1981]. Guilders 90.

The Cambridge economic history of India. Vol. I. C. 1200–C. 1750. Edited By Tapan Raychaudhuri and Irfan Habib. pp. xvi, 543. Cambridge, etc., Cambridge University Press, 1982. £42.50.

Banaras: city of light. By Diana L. Eck. pp. xvi, 427. London, etc., Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1983. £14.95.

Early Sikh tradition: a study of the Janam-Sākhīs. By. W. H. McLeod. pp. xiv, 317. Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1980. £17.50.

Islamic society on the South asian frontier: the Māppiḷas of Malabar, 1498–1922. By Stephen Frederic Dale. pp. xvii, 290, front., 6 pl. Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1980. £17.50.

Life and times of Cantoo Baboo (Krisna Kanta Nandy), the banian of Warren Hastings. Vol. II. By Somendra Chandra Nandy. pp. xix, 509, front., 30 pl. Calcultta, Dev-All Private Ltd., 1981. Rs. 155.

Ahmad Rijaluddin's Hikayat perintah negeri Benggala. Edited and Translated By C. Skinner. (Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde. Bibliotheca Indonesica, 22.) pp. vi, 198. The Hague, Martinus Nijhoff, 1982.

Shāh 'Abd al-'Azīz: puritanism, sectarian polemics, and jihād. By Saiyid Athar Abbas Rizvi. pp. xi, 609, map. Canberra, Ma'rifat Publishing House, 1982. (Distributors: Munshiram Manoharlal, New Delhi. £24.)

King Wajid Ali Shah of Awadh. By Mirza Ali Azhar. pp. [xiv], vii, 553, 10 pl., 2 maps. Karachi, Royal Book Co., 1982. Rs. 250.

“Send Malcolm!” the life of Major-General Sir John Malcolm, 1769–1833. By Rodney Pasley. pp. [iv], vi, 198, 10 pl. Putney, B[ritish] A[ssociation for] C[emeteriesin] S[outh] A[sia], 1982. £7.50.

Escape from empire: the Attlee government and the Indian problem. By R. J. Moore, pp. xii, 376, front. Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1983. £19.50.

Nepal Mandala: A cultural study of the Kathmandu Valley. By Mary Shepherd Slusser. 2 vols.: pp. xix, 491, front.; pp. xix, 9 maps, 29 figs., 600 photos. Princeton, N.J., Princeton University Press, [1982]. $162.50, £105.90.

Views of medieval Bhutan: the diary and drawings of Samuel Davis, 1783. By Michael Aris. pp. 124. London, Serindia Publications; Washington, D.C., Smithsonian Institution Press, 1982. (Distributors: La Haule Books Ltd., La Haule, Jersey, C.I. £18.)

Tibetan village communities: structure and change. By Eva K. Dargyay. pp. ix, 117. Warminster, Aris and Phillips Ltd., [1983]. £12.50. (Distributors: La Haule Books Ltd., La Haule, Jersey, C.I.; Humanities Press, Inc., Atlantic Highlands, New Jersey 07716, U.S.A.)

A History of Sri Lanka. By K. M. de Silva. pp. xx, 603, 12 pl. London, C. Hurst and Co.; Berkeley and Los Angeles, University of California Press, [c1981]. £18.50.

South Asian civilizations: a bibliographic Synthesis. By Maureen L. P. Patterson and William J. Alspaugh. pp. xxxix, 853. Chicago and London, University of Chicago Press, [c1981]. £35.

The Maniyadanabon of Shin Sandalinka. Translated By L. E. Bagshawe. (Data Paper No. 115.) pp. xx, 132. Ithaca, N.Y., Southeast Asia Program, Cornell University, 1981. $7.

The short story in South East Asia: aspects of a genre. Edited By Jeremy H. C. S. Davidson and Helen Cordell. (Collected Papers in Oriental and African Studies.) pp. xii, 270. London, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, 1982. £5.