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Volume 53 - February 1990

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V. Bouillier and G. Toffin (ed.): Prêtrise, pouvoirs et autorité en Himalaya. (Collection Puruṣārtha, vol. 12.) 238 pp. Paris: Editions de l'École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, 1989. Fr. 190.

Mehrdad Shokoohy: Bhadreśvar: the oldest Islamic monuments in India. With contributions by Manijeh Bayani-Wolpert and Natalie H. Shokoohy. (Studies in Islamic Architecture. Supplements to Muqarnas, Vol. II.) 65 pp., 58 plates. Leiden, New York and Copenhagen: E. J. Brill, 1988. Guilders 72.

S. C. Banerjee: A brief history of Tantra literature. xvii, 662 pp. Calcutta: Naya Prokash, 1988. Rs. 400.

Vasudha Dhagamwar: Towards the Uniform Civil Code, [iv], 166 pp. Bombay: N. M. Tripathi Private Ltd. under the auspices of the Indian Law Institute, New Delhi, 1989. Rs. 100, £10, $15.

S. Mahdihassan: The history and natural history of Ephedra as Soma. xii, 172 pp. Islamabad: Pakistan Science Foundation, 1987.

Nita Kumar: The artisans of Banaras: popular culture and identity, 1880–1986. xix, 279 pp. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1988. $29.50.

Ahsan Jan Qaisar: Building construction in Mughal India: the evidence from painting, xi, 72 pp., 16 plates. Delhi. Oxford University Press, 1988 [pub. 1989]. £10.50.

Deepak Lal: The Hindu equilibrium. Vol. I Cultural Stability and Economic Stagnation. India c. 1500 b.c.–a.d. 1980. Vol. II: Aspects of Indian labour, xxvii, 345 pp.; xii, 197 pp. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1988, 1989. £35, £22.50.

Stuart H. Blackburn: Singing of birth and death: texts in performance, xxiv, 263 pp., 14 plates. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1988.

Pandurang Ganesh Deshpande and Bharati Deshpande: Universal English–Gujarati dictionary, vi, 960 pp. Bombay: Oxford University Press, 1988. Rs. 90, £7.95.

Christopher Shackle (ed.): Urdu and Muslim South Asia: studies in honour of Ralph Russell, xi, 205 pp. London: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, 1989. £10.

John Stratton Hawley [and] Mark Juergensmeyer (ed. and tr.): Songs of the saints of India. xii, 244 pp. New York: Oxford University Press, 1988 [pub. 1989]. £24.

David C. Potter: India's political administrators 1919–1983. xvii, 289 pp. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1986.

George L. Hart and Hank Heifetz (ed. and tr.): The Forest Book of the Rāmāyana of Kampaṉ. ix, 402 pp. Berkeley and London: University of California Press, 1989. $35.

Francis Robinson (ed.): The Cambridge encyclopaedia of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bhutan and the Maldives. 520 pp., map [on endpapers]. Cambridge, etc.: Cambridge University Press, 1989. £30.

Farzana Shaikh: Community and consensus in Islam: Muslim representation in Colonial India, 1860–1947. (South Asian Studies, 42.) xiv, 257 pp. Cambridge, etc.: Cambridge University Press, 1989. £27.50, $44.50.

Somasundaram Vanniasingham: Sri Lanka: the conflict within, xii, 200 pp., London: Sangam Books Ltd., 1989. £19.95.

Koch Ebba: Shah Jahan and Orpheus: the pietre dure decoration and the programme of the throne in the Hall of Public Audiences at the Red Fort of Delhi. 56 pp. 48 plates. Graz: Akademische Druck-u. Verlagsanstalt, 1988. 6S 480, DM 74.

Herdick Reinhard: Kirtipur: Stadtgestalt, Prinzipien der Raumordnung und gesellschaftliche Funktionen einer Newar-Stadt, (Schriftenreihe Internationales Asienforum, ed 6.) xiv, 272 pp., 9 plates Koln: Weltforum Verlag, 1988. DM 89

Michael H. Fisher: A clash of cultures: Awadh, the British and the Mughals. viii, 284 pp. Riverdale, Maryland: The Riverdale Co., 1987. $35.

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