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Volume 55 - Issue 2 - May 1996

Book Reviews—South Asia

India Votes: Alliance Politics and Minority Governments in the Ninth and Tenth General Elections. Edited by Harold A. Gould and Sumit Ganguly. Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 1993. xxi, 454 pp. $59.95 (cloth).

One Language, Two Scripts: The Hindi Movement in Nineteenth Century North India. By Christopher R. King. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1994. xii, 232 pp. $24.95 (cloth).

Grammatik des Alttamil: Unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Caṅkam-texte des Dichters Kapilar. By Thomas Lehmann. Beiträge zur Südasienforschung, Band 159. Südasieninstitut der Universitat Heidelberg. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 1994. xiv, 187 pp. DM 66 (paper).

Religions of India in Practice. Edited by Donald S. LopezJr. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995. xvi, 655 pp. $59.50 (cloth); $19.95 (paper).

Nehru to the Nineties: The Changing Office of the Prime Minister of India. Edited by James Manor. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 1994. 261 pp. $49.95 (cloth); $25.95 (paper).

Contours of Continuity and Change: The Story of the Bonda Highlanders. By Bikram Narayan Nanda. New Delhi: Sage Publications, 1994. 228 pp. $24.95 (cloth).

The Rise of the Goddess in the Hindu Tradition. By Tracy Pintchman. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1994. xii, 288 pp. $14.95 (cloth).

Book Reviews—Southeast Asia

The Vernacular Press and the Emergence of Modern Indonesian Consciousness (1855–1913). By Ahmat B. Adam. Ithaca, N.Y.: Southeast Asia Program, Cornell University, 1994. xiii, 206 pp. $16.00 (paper).

Following Ho Chi Minh: Memoirs of a North Vietnamese Colonel. By Bui Tin. Translated and adapted by Judy Stowe and Do Van. Introduction by Carlyle A. Thayer. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1995. xx, 202 pp. $23.00.

Subversion as Foreign Policy: The Secret Eisenhower and Dulles Debacle in Indonesia. By Audrey R. Kahin and George McT. Kahin. New York: The New Press, 1995. 318 pp. $25.00.

Vietnam 1945: The Quest for Power. By David Marr. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995. xxvii, 602 pp. $50.00.

Soul of the Tiger: Searching for Nature's Answers in Southeast Asia. By Jeffrey A. McNeely and Paul Spencer Sochaczewski (previously known as Paul Spencer Wachtel). Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1995. xxvi, 390 pp.

Bewitching Women, Pious Men: Gender and Body Politics in Southeast Asia. Edited by Aihwa Ong and Michael G. Peletz. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995. 309 pp. $16.00.

Food Supply in Java during War and Decolonisation, 1940–1950. By Pierre van der Eng. Hull: Centre for South-East Asian Studies, University of Hull, 1994. iii, 87 pp.

Halmahera and Beyond: Social Science Research in the Moluccas. Edited by Leontine E. Visser. Leiden: KITLV Press, 1994. vii, 249 pp. $29.00 (paper).

Back Fire: The CIA's Secret War in Laos and Its Link to the War in Vietnam. By Roger Warner. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1995. 416 pp. $25.00.

Islamic Peasants and the State: The 1908 Anti-Tax Rebellion in West Sumatra. By Ken Young. New Haven: Monograph No. 40, Yale Center for International and Area Studies, Yale University, 1994. xviii, 361 pp. $22.00.

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