Bulletin of SOAS: Volume 61 - Issue 1

Bulletin of SOAS

Only show content I have access to (2)

Over 3 years (96)

View selected items
Save to my bookmarks
Export citations
Download PDF (zip)
Save to Kindle
Save to Dropbox
Save to Google Drive
Save content to
To save this undefined to your undefined account, please select one or more formats and confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. If this is the first time you used this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your undefined account. Find out more about saving content to .

To send this article to your Kindle, first ensure no-reply@cambridge.org is added to your Approved Personal Document E-mail List under your Personal Document Settings on the Manage Your Content and Devices page of your Amazon account. Then enter the ‘name’ part of your Kindle email address below. Find out more about sending to your Kindle. Find out more about saving to your Kindle.

Note you can select to save to either the @free.kindle.com or @kindle.com variations. ‘@free.kindle.com’ emails are free but can only be saved to your device when it is connected to wi-fi. ‘@kindle.com’ emails can be delivered even when you are not connected to wi-fi, but note that service fees apply.

Find out more about the Kindle Personal Document Service.

Please be advised that item(s) you selected are not available.
You are about to save
Bulletin of SOAS
ISSN: 0041-977X

EISSN: 1474-0699

URL: /core/journals/bulletin-of-the-school-of-oriental-and-african-studies
Your Kindle email address

Please provide your Kindle email.

@free.kindle.com @kindle.com (service fees apply)

By using this service, you agree that you will only keep content for personal use, and will not openly distribute them via Dropbox, Google Drive or other file sharing services

Bulletin of SOAS

Refine listing

Actions for selected content:

Volume 61 - Issue 1 - February 1998

Reviews

John Clifford Holt: The religious world of Kīrti Srī: Buddhism, art and Politics in late medieval SriLanka. x, 147 pp., 30 plates. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996. £35.

M. A. Dhaky: Encyclopedia of Indian temple architecture, Vol. I, part 3:South India, Upper Drāvidadēśa, Later Phase, A.D. 973–1326. [in two parts]. I: xix, 598; Delhi: American Institute of Indian Studies and Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts, 1996. Rs. 4,000 set.

Richard Widdess: The rāgas of early Indian music: modes, melodies and musical notations from the Gupta period to c. 1250 (Oxford Monographs on Music.) xviii, 429 pp. Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1995. £50.

Sabinderjit Singh Sagar: Historical analysis of Nanak prakash by Bhai Santokh Singh. 169 pp. Amritsar: Guru Nanak Dev University, 1993. Rs. 80.

Peter Friedlander: A descriptive catalogue of Hindi manuscripts in the Library of the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine. 606 pp. London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1996. £30.

Seyyed vali Reza Nasr: Mawdudi and the making of Islamic revivalism. x, 222 pp. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996. £38.

Lise Mckean: Divine enterprise: gurus and the Hindu nationalist movement. xviii, 361 pp. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1996. $60, £47.95 (paper $21.95, £17.50.).

Ludden David (ed): Contesting the nation: religion, community and the politics of democracy in India. (South Asia Seminar Series.) xi, 346 pp. Philadelphia: Uiniversity of Pennsylvania, 1995. £37.95 (paper £18.95).

Chopra Vir: Marginal Players in marginal assemblies: the Indian MLA. xix, 387 pp. London: Sangam Books, 1996. £22.95.

Hawley John Stratton (ed.): Fundamentalism and gender. viii, 220 pp. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994. £27.50 (PaPer £10.95).

Staney J. Tambiah: Levelling crowds: ethnonationalist conflicts and collective violence in South Asia. (Comparative Studies in Religion and Society, 10.) x, 395 pp. Berkeley, Los Angeles and London: University of California Press, 1996. £50, $40 (paper $20, £15.95).

Crook Nigel (ed.): The transmission of Knowledge in South Asia: essays on education, religion, history, and politics. (SOAS Studies on South Asia (Understandings and Perspectives).) x, 336 pp. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1996. Rs.495, £15.

Shepperdson Mike: Income distribution and health in a North Indian village. xvii, 501 pp. Aldershot: Avebury, 1995. £50.

Shanti Sadiq Ali. The African dispersal in the Deccan from medieval to modern times. xiv, 260 pp., 6 plates. London: Sangam Books, 1996. £14.95.

Arénes Pierre: La déesse sGrol-ma (Tārā): recherches sur la nature et le statut d'une divinité du Bouddhisme tibétain. (Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta, 74.) [vi], 449 pp. Leuven: Uitgeverij Peeters en Departement Oriëntalistiek, 1996. BFr. 2900.

Strickmann Michel: Mantras et mandarins: le Bouddhisme tantrique en Chine. (Bibliothéque des sciences humaines.) 560 pp., 12 [colour] plates. Paris: Gallimard, 1996, Fr. 195.

Jullien François: The Propensity of things: towards a history of efficacy in China. Transl. by Janet Lloyd. 318 pp. New York: Zone Books, 1995 [pub. 1996]. (Distributed by the MIT Press. £20.95.)

Munro Donald J.: The imperial style pf inquiry in twentieth-century China: the emergence of new approaches. xiii, 139 pp. Ann Arbor: Center for Chinese Studies University of Michigan, 1996.

Lust John: Chinese popular prints. (Handbuch der Orientalistik. 5. Abt.: China. 11. Bd.) xiii, 352 pp., 24 plates. Leiden, New York, Köln and London: E.J. Brill, 1996. Guilders 238.50, $149.50.

Bulletin of SOAS

Refine listing

Actions for selected content:

Save Search

Volume 61 - Issue 1 - February 1998

Reviews