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Volume 78 - Issue 4 - November 2019

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Book Reviews—Northeast Asia

Japan's Carnival War: Mass Culture on the Home Front, 1937–1945. By Benjamin Uchiyama. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. xii, 280 pp. ISBN: 9781107186743 (cloth).

Thought Crime: Ideology and State Power in Interwar Japan. By Max M. Ward. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2019. xviii, 294 pp. ISBN: 9781478001652 (paper).

Book Reviews—South Asia

Conquest and Community: The Afterlife of Warrior Saint Ghazi Miyan. By Shahid Amin. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2016. xix, 321 pp. ISBN: 9780226372570 (cloth).

Caring for Glaciers: Land, Animals, and Humanity in the Himalayas. By Karine Gagné. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2018. xxv, 232 pp. ISBN: 9780295744001 (paper).

India at War: The Subcontinent and the Second World War. By Yasmin Khan. New York: Oxford University Press, 2015. xvi, 416 pp. ISBN: 9780199753499 (cloth).

Australianama: The South Asian Odyssey in Australia. By Samia Khatun. New York: Oxford University Press, 2018. xviii, 286 pp. ISBN: 9780190922603 (paper).

Elusive Lives: Gender, Autobiography, and the Self in Muslim South Asia. By Siobhan Lambert-Hurley. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2018. ix, 282 pp. ISBN: 9781503606517 (paper).

The Snake and the Mongoose: The Emergence of Identity in Early Indian Religion. By Nathan McGovern. New York: Oxford University Press, 2019. xiv, 313 pp. ISBN: 9780190640798 (cloth).

Pax Gandhiana: The Political Philosophy of Mahatma Gandhi. By Anthony J. Parel. New York: Oxford University Press, 2016. xiii, 220 pp. ISBN: 9780190491451 (cloth).

Interpretations of Jihad in South Asia: An Intellectual History. By Tariq Rahman. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2018. xix, 315 pp. ISBN: 9783110550276 (cloth).

Himalayan Histories: Economy, Polity, Religious Traditions. By Chetan Singh. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2019. xi, 303 pp. ISBN: 9781438475219 (cloth).

Power and Diplomacy: India's Foreign Policies during the Cold War. By Zorawar Daulet Singh. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2019. xv, 398 pp. ISBN: 9780199489640 (cloth).

A Garland of Bones: Child Runaways in India. By Jonah Steinberg. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2019. xi, 337 pp. ISBN: 9780300222807 (cloth).

Book Reviews—Southeast Asia

Creating a Buddhist Community: A Thai Temple in Silicon Valley. By Jiemin Bao. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2015. xvi, 185 pp. ISBN: 9781439909553 (paper).

Savu: History and Oral Tradition on an Island of Indonesia. By Geneviève Duggan and Hans Hägerdal. Singapore: National University of Singapore Press, 2018. xviii, 586 pp. ISBN: 9789814722759 (cloth).

Studying Singapore before 1800. Edited by Kwa Chong Guan and Peter Borschberg. Singapore: National University of Singapore Press, 2018. 600 pp. ISBN: 9789814722742 (paper).

Traditional Medicine in the Colonial Philippines: 16th to the 19th Century. By Ma. Mercedes G. Planta. Quezon City, Philippines: University of the Philippines Press, 2017. xxx, 249 pp. ISBN: 9789715428255 (paper).

Marriage, Gender and Islam in Indonesia: Women Negotiating Informal Marriage, Divorce and Desire. By Maria Platt. London: Routledge, 2017. xii, 158 pp. ISBN: 9780415662611 (cloth).

Translating the Body: Medical Education in Southeast Asia. Edited by Hans Pols, C. Michele Thompson, and John Harley Warner. Singapore: National University of Singapore Press, 2017. ix, 370 pp. ISBN: 9789814722056 (paper).

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