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Volume 39 - Issue 4 - August 1980

Book Reviews—South Asia

India: A Rising Middle Power. Edited by John W. Mellor. Foreword by Phillips Talbot. Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, 1979. xv, 374 pp. $20.00.

Coordination in Complex Settings. Appendix 5 of Volume 7, Appendixes: Commission on the Organization of Government for the Conduct of Foreign Policy, June 1975. Edited by Lloyd I. Rudolph and Hoeber Rudolph Susanne. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1976. 185 pp. $4.60 (paper).

Voting, Caste, Community, Society: Explorations in Aggregate Data Analysis in India and Bangladesh. By Harry W. Blair. New Delhi: Young Asia Publications, 1979. xvi, 199 pp. References, Index. $12.00.

The Death of a Marriage Law: Epitaph for the Rishis. By J. Duncan M. Derrett. Durham, N.C.: Carolina Academic Press, 1978. xxvi, 228 pp. Bibliographical Note, Index of Bills and Statutes, Index of Cases, Index of Names and Topics. $12.95.

Rural Modernization in India: A Study in Developmental Infrastructure. By K. C. Panchanadikar and J. Panchanadikar. Bombay: Popular Prakashan, 1978. xxiv, 398 pp. Tables, Glossary of Local Terms and Castes, Bibliography, Index. Rs. 92.

In Defense of the Irrational Peasant: Indian Agriculture after the Green Revolution. By Kusum Nair. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1979. xxi, 154 pp. Glossary, Bibliography, Index. $17.00.

Agriculture and Social Structure in Tamil Nadu: Past Origins, Present Transformations and Future Prospects. By Joan P. Mencher. Durham, N.C.: Carolina Academic Press, 1978. xxi, 314 pp. Appendixes, Glossary, Bibliography, Index. $14.95.

Nepalese Temple Architecture: Its Characteristics and Its Relations to Indian Development. By Ulrich Wiesner. Leiden: E. J. Brill (Studies in South Asian Culture No. 8), 1978. xii, 115 pp. Bibliography, Index of Proper Names, Index of Geographical Names, Plates. D. Glds. 68.

Documents of the Ceylon National Congress and Nationalist Politics in Ceylon, 1929–1950. Four volumes. Edited with an introduction by Michael Roberts. Colombo: Department of National Archives, 1977. ccxxii, 3208 pp. Notes, Bibliography. N.p.l.

Modern Sri Lanka: A Society in Transition. Edited by Tissa Fernando and Robert Kearney. Syracuse: Syracuse University, Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs (Foreign and Comparative Studies, South Asian Series No. 4), 1979. viii, 297 pp. Index. $7.50.

Book Reviews—Southeast Asia

South-East Asia: A Systematic Geography. Edited by R. D. Hill. Kuala Lumpur: Oxford University Press (Oxford in Asia College Texts), 1979. xvi, 214 pp. Tables, Figures, Further Reading, Index. $27.00 (cloth); $14.00 (paper).

ASEAN Economies in Perspective: A Comparative Study of Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, and Thailand. By John Wong. Philadelphia: ISHI, Institute for the Study of Human Issues, 1979. xii, 217 pp. Map, Statistical Tables, Notes, References, Index. $17.50.

Tiruray Subsistence: From Shifting Cultivation to Plow Agriculture. By Stuart A. Schlegel Quezon City: Ateneo de Manila University Press, 1979. xi, 219 pp. Maps, Figures, Tables, Appendixes, Bibliography, Index. $20.00 (cloth); $12.25 (paper). (Distributed by Cellar Bookshop.)

The Constitution of Malaysia: Its Development, 1957–1977. Edited by Tun Mohamed Suffian, H. P. Lee, and F. A. Trindade. Kuala Lumpur: Oxford University Press, 1978. xxiii, 425 pp. Tables, Index. $26.95.

The Constitution of Malaysia: Its Development, 1957–1977. Edited by Tun Mohamed Suffian, H. P. Lee, and F. A. Trindade. Kuala Lumpur: Oxford University Press, 1978. xxiii, 425 pp. Tables, Index. $26.95.

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