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Book Reviews—South Asia
Framing the Jina: Narratives of Icons and Idols in Jain History. By John E. Cort. New York: Oxford University Press, 2010. xviii, 398 pp. $74.00 (cloth).
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Poetry and History: Bengali Maṅgal-kābya and Social Change in Precolonial Bengal. By David L. Curley. New Delhi: Chronicle Books, 2008. 296 pp. $46.95 (cloth).
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- 23 February 2011, pp. 273-275
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Breaking the Ashes: The Culture of Illicit Liquor in Sri Lanka. By Michelle Ruth Gamburd. x, 266 pp. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2008. 266 pp. $23.95 (paper).
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- 23 February 2011, pp. 275-276
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Krishna's Mandala: Bhagavata Religion and Beyond. By D. Dennis Hudson. Edited by John Stratton Hawley. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2010. 298 pp. $74.00 (cloth).
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- 23 February 2011, pp. 277-278
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Language in South Asia. Edited by Braj B. Kachru, Yamuna Kachru, and S. N. Sridhar. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008. xxiv, 608 pp. $120.99 (cloth); $50.00 (paper).
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- 23 February 2011, pp. 279-280
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Religion and the Specter of the West: Sikhism, India, Postcoloniality, and the Politics of Translation. By Arvind-Pal S. Mandair. New York: Columbia University Press, 2009. xviii, 516 pp. $55.00 (cloth).
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- 23 February 2011, pp. 280-282
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Strī: Women in the Mahābhārata. By Kevin McGrath. Boston, Mass.: Ilex Foundation, 2009. 217 pp. $24.95 (paper).
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- 23 February 2011, pp. 282-284
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Bangladesh and Pakistan: Flirting with Failure in South Asia. By William B. Milam. New York: Columbia University Press, 2009. xii, 276 pp. $35.00 (cloth), $26.50 (paper).
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- 23 February 2011, pp. 284-285
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Crooked Stalks: Cultivating Virtue in South India. By Anand Pandian. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2009. xv, 325 pp. $23.95 (paper).
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- 23 February 2011, pp. 286-287
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The Portuguese Missionary in 16th and 17th Century Ceylon: The Spiritual Conquest. By Gaston Perera. Colombo: Vijitha Yapa, 2009. xvi, 430 pp. Rs. 1000.
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- 23 February 2011, pp. 287-289
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“Good Women Do Not Inherit Land”: Politics of Land and Gender in India. By Nitya Rao. New Delhi: Social Science Press and Orient Blackswan, 2008. 356 pp. $95.00 (cloth).
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Dance and the Nation: Performance, Ritual, and Politics in Sri Lanka. By Susan A. Reed. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2010. xv, 280 pp, DVD. $29.95 (paper).
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- 23 February 2011, pp. 291-292
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Mourning the Nation: Indian Cinema in the Wake of Partition. By Bhaskar Sarkar. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2009. xi, 384 pp. $94.95 (cloth); $25.95 (paper).
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God of Justice: Ritual Healing and Social Justice in the Central Himalayas. By William S. Sax. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009. xii, 284 pp. $99.00 (cloth); $25.00 (paper).
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Rethinking India's Past. By R. S. Sharma. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2009. 299 pp. $49.95 (cloth).
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- 23 February 2011, pp. 296-297
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Riven by Lust: Incest and Schism in Indian Buddhist Legend and Historiography. By Jonathan A. Silk. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2009. xviii, 347 pp. $55.00 (cloth).
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- 23 February 2011, pp. 297-299
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Theorizing the Local: Music, Practice, and Experience in South Asia and Beyond. Edited by Richard Wolf. New York: Oxford University Press, 2009. 344 pp. $99.00 (cloth).
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Book Reviews—Southeast Asia
A History of Cambodia, 4th ed. By David Chandler. Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 2008. xiv, 365 pp. $37.00 (paper). - At the Edge of the Forest: Essays on Cambodia, History and Narrative in Honor of David Chandler. Edited by Anne Ruth Hansen and Judy Ledgerwood. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell Southeast Asia Program, 2008. xii, 251 pp. $46.95 (cloth); $23.95 (paper).
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Strange Parallels: Southeast Asia in Global Context, c. 800–1830. Vol. 2, Mainland Mirrors: Europe, Japan, China, South Asia and the Islands. By Victor Lieberman. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009. xxvi, 947 pp. $130.99 (cloth); $39.99 (paper).
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A Certain Age: Colonial Jakarta through the Memories of Its Intellectuals. By Rudolf Mrázek. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2010. 328 pp. $84.95 (cloth); $23.95 (paper).
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- 23 February 2011, pp. 309-310
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