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Volume 50 - Issue 4 - November 1991

Book Reviews—South Asia

Āṇṭāḷ and Her Path of Love: Poems of a Woman Saint from South India. By Vidya Dehejia. Albany, New York: SUNY Press, 1990. viii, 183 pp. $12.95.

Illustrations and Views of Dutch Ceylon, 1602–1796: A Comprehensive Work of Pictorial Reference with Selected Eye-Witness Accounts. By R. K. De Silva and W. G. M. Beumer. Leiden: E. J. Brill; London: Serendib Publications, 1988. viii, 495 pp. NFI 200.00 (cloth).

Science and Social Science Research in British India, 1780–1880: The Role of Anglo-Indian Associations and Government. By Edward W. Ellsworth. Contributions in Comparative Colonial Studies, No. 28. New York: Greenwood Press, 1991. xvi, 220 pp. $47.95.

Urbanisation in Early Historic India. By George Erdosy. BAR International Series 430. Oxford: BAR International, 1988. iv, 211 pp.

Conflicting Images: India and the United States. Edited by Sulochana Raghavan Glazer and Nathan Glazer. Glenn Dale, Maryland: The Riverdale Company, 1990. viii, 307 pp. $45.00.

Subaltern Studies VI, Writings on South Asian History and Society. Edited by Ranajit Guha. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1989. Rs. 200.00.

Nationalism and Communal Politics in India, 1885–1930. By Mushirul Hasan. New Delhi: Manohar Publications, 1991. x, 338 pp. Rs. 250.00. - Religion, Nationalism and Politics in Bangladesh. By Rafiuddin Ahmed. New Delhi: South Asian Publishers, 1990. xii, 201 pp. $24.00.

Order in Paradox: Myth, Ritual, and Exchange Among Nepal's Tamang. By David H. Holmberg. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1989. xvi, 265 pp. $29.95. - Depicted Deities: Painter's Model Books in Nepal. By M. L. B. Blom. Groningen, The Netherlands: Egbert Forsten, 1989. vii, 92 pp.

Buddha in the Crown: Avalokiteśvara in the Buddhist Traditions of Sri Lanka. By John Clifford Holt. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991. xvi, 269 pp. $39.95.

Muslim Women in India: Political and Private Realities. By Shahida Lateef. London: Zed Books, 1990. 238 pp. $55.00 (cloth); $16.95 (paper).

Divine Passions: The Social Construction of Emotion in India. Edited by Owen Lynch. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990. x, 312 pp. $40.00.

Gods on Earth: The Management of Religious Experience and Identity in a North Indian Pilgrimage Centre. By Peter van der Veer. London and Atlantic Highlands, N.J.: The Athlone Press, 1988. (Monographs on Social Anthropology, vol. 59.) xvi, 310 pp. $70.00.

Book Reviews—Southeast Asia

Language and Power: Exploring Political Cultures in Indonesia, By Benedict R. O'G Anderson. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1990. 305 pp. $44.95 (cloth); $14.95 (paper).

Ashes to Ashes: The Phoenix Program and the Vietnam War. By Dale Andradé. Lexington, Mass.: Lexington Books, 1990. xviii, 331 pp. $22.95. - The Phoenix Program. By Douglas Valentine. New York: William Morrow and Company, 1990. 479 pp. $24.95.

ASEAN and the Diplomacy of Accommodation. By Michael Antolik. Armonk, N.Y.: M. E. Sharpe, Inc., 1990. xi, 208 pp. - ASEAN into the 1990s. Edited by Alison Broinowski. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1990. xiii, 265 pp.

The Dynamics of Defeat: The Vietnam War in Hau Nghia Province. By Eric M. Bergerud. Boulder: Westview Press, 1991. xiii, 383 pp. $29.95.

Meaning and Power in a Southeast Asian Realm. By Shelly Errington. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press. 1989. xvi, 322 pp. $35.00.

Toward an Alternative Land Reform Paradigm: A Philippine Perspective. By Yujiro Hayami, Ma. Agnes R. Quisumbing, and Lourdes S. Adriano. Manila: Ateneo de Manila University Press, 1990. xiv, 209 pp.

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