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Volume 52 - Issue 3 - August 1993

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Great Swan: Meetings with Ramakrishna. By Lex Hixon. Boston: Shambala, 1992. xvii, 314 pp. $16.00.
Hal W. French
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Speaking of Basava: Lingayat Religion and Culture in South Asia. By K. Ishwaran. Boulder: Westview Press, 1992. viii, 263 pp. $37.50.
Daniel Gold
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Electoral Allegiance in Sri Lanka. Cambridge South Asian Studies Series, No. 48. By Dilesh Jayanntha. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992. x, 220 pp. $59.95.
Amita Shastri
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Untying the Afghan Knot: Negotiating Soviet Withdrawal. By Riaz M. Khan. An Institute for the Study of Diplomacy Book. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 1991. ix, 402 pp. $49.95.
Marvin G. Weinbaum
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Naukar, Rajput and Sepoy: The Ethnohistory of the Military Labour Market in Hindustan, 1450–1839. By Dirk H. A. Kolff. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990. xvi, 217 pp. $49.50.
André Wink
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Political Mercenaries and Citizen Soldiers: A Profile of North Indian Party Activists. By Yogendra K. Malik and Jesse F. Marquette. Delhi: Chanakya Publications, 1990. xiv, 213 pp. Rs. 200.
S. V. R. Nasr
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Book Reviews—Japan

God's Samurai: Lead Pilot at Pearl Harbor. By Gordon W. Prange, with Donald M. Goldstein and Katherine V. Dillon. Washington, D.C.: Brassey's, 1990. $21.95.

Japan's Response to the Gorbachev Era, 1985–1991: A Rising Superpower Views a Declining One. By Gilbert Rozman. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1992. x, 276 pp.

Japan in the Contemporary Middle East. Edited by Kaoru Sugihara and J. A. Allan. London and New York: Routledge, 1993, xiv, 191 pp. $55.00.

Book Reviews—Korea

The Culture of Korean Industry: An Ethnography of Poongsan Corporation. By Choong Soon Kim. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1992. xix, 248 pp. $29.95.

From Pusan To Panmunjom. By GeneralPaik Sun Yup. Washington, D.C.: Brassey's (U.S.), Inc., 1992. $24.95.

Book Reviews—South Asia

The Wrestler's Body: Identity and Ideology in North India. By Joseph S. Alter. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992. xv, 305 pp. $45.00.

The City in Indian History: Urban Demography, Society, and Politics. Edited by Indu Banga. New Delhi: South Asia Publications, 1991. xviii, 300 pp. - Ports and Their Hinterlands in India (1700–1950). Edited by Indu Banga. New Delhi: Manohar Publications, 1992. xiv, 385 pp. Rs. 350.

The South Indian Economy: Agrarian Change, Industrial Structure, and State Policy, c. 1914–1947. Edited by Sabyasachi Bhattacharya, Sumit Guha, Raman Mahadevan, Sakti Padhi, D. Rajasekhar, and G. N. Rao. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1991. xxvii, 292 pp. Rs. 290.

Singing of Birth and Death: Texts in Performance. By Stuart H. Blackburn. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1988. xxiv, 263 pp. $37.95.

Communal Riots in Bengal, 1905–1947. By Suranjan Das. Oxford University South Asian Studies Series. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1991. xv, 311 pp. Rs. 225.

Discourses of Ethnicity: Culture and Protest in Jharkhand. By Susana B. C. Devalle. New Delhi: Sage Publications, 1992. 279 pp. $32.50.

The Aphorisms of Śiva: The Śiva Sūtra with Bhāskara's Commentary, The Vārttika. Translated with exposition and notes by Mark S. G. Dyczkowski. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1992. xvii, 247 pp. $12.95.

Great Swan: Meetings with Ramakrishna. By Lex Hixon. Boston: Shambala, 1992. xvii, 314 pp. $16.00.

Speaking of Basava: Lingayat Religion and Culture in South Asia. By K. Ishwaran. Boulder: Westview Press, 1992. viii, 263 pp. $37.50.

Electoral Allegiance in Sri Lanka. Cambridge South Asian Studies Series, No. 48. By Dilesh Jayanntha. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992. x, 220 pp. $59.95.

Untying the Afghan Knot: Negotiating Soviet Withdrawal. By Riaz M. Khan. An Institute for the Study of Diplomacy Book. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 1991. ix, 402 pp. $49.95.

Naukar, Rajput and Sepoy: The Ethnohistory of the Military Labour Market in Hindustan, 1450–1839. By Dirk H. A. Kolff. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990. xvi, 217 pp. $49.50.

Political Mercenaries and Citizen Soldiers: A Profile of North Indian Party Activists. By Yogendra K. Malik and Jesse F. Marquette. Delhi: Chanakya Publications, 1990. xiv, 213 pp. Rs. 200.

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