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Volume 58 - Issue 2 - May 1999

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Book Reviews—Japan

Japan and the Enemies of Open Political Science. By David Williams. New York: Routledge, 1996. xxvii, 273 pp. $85.00 (cloth); $25.99 (paper).

The Nonprofit Sector in Japan. Edited by Tadashi Yamamoto. Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 1998. xiii, 194 pp. $59.95.

Book Reviews—South Asia

The Environment and Economic Development in South Asia: An Overview Concentrating on Bangladesh. By Mohammad Alauddin and Clement Allan Tisdell. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1998. xxi, 219 pp. $69.95 (cloth).

The Need for Enemies: A Bestiary of Political Forms. By F. G. Bailey. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1998. xiv, 223 pp. $39.95 (cloth); $15.95 (paper).

Modern South Asia: History, Culture, Political Economy. By Sugata Bose and Ayesha Jalal. London: Routledge, 1998. x, 303 pp. $75.00 (cloth); $22.99 (paper).

Tipu Sultan's Search for Legitimacy: Islam and Kingship in a Hindu Domain. By Kate Brittlebank. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1997. xxii, 184 pp. Rs. 450 (cloth).

Enslaved Daughters: Colonialism, Law and Women's Rights. By Sudhir Chandra. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1998. xiii, 249 pp. $29.95 (cloth).

Death Before Dying: The Sufi Poems of Sultan Babu. Edited and translated by Jamal J. Elias. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998. ix, 145 pp. $45.00 (cloth); $14.95 (paper).

Living Martyrs: Individuals and Revolution in Nepal. By James F. Fisher with Tanka Prasad Acharya and Rewanta Kumari Acharya. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1997.

Switching Channels. Ideologies of Television in India. By Nilanjana Gupta. New Delhi: Oxford, 1998. xiii, 155 pp. $45.00 (cloth).

The Essential Writings of Sri Aurobindo. Edited by Peter Heehs. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1998. xxx, 388 pp. $35.00 (cloth).

The Hindu Nationalist Movement in India. By Christophe Jaffrelot. New York: Columbia University Press, 1996. xxiii, 592 pp.

Architecture and Independence: The Search for Identity—India, 1880–1980. By Jon Lang, Madhavi Desai, and Miki Desai. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1997. xxi, 347 pp. $115.00 (cloth).

Development, Ethnicity and Human Rights in South Asia. By Ross Mallick. New Delhi: Sage Publications, 1998. 375 pp. $44.00.

Dattātreya: The Immortal Guru, Yogin, and Avatāra: A Study of the Transformative and Inclusive Character of a Multi-Faceted Hindu Deity. By Antonio Rigopoulos. SUNY Series in Religious Studies. Edited by Harold Coward. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1998. xvi, 342 pp.

Widows, Wives and Other Heroines: Twelve Stories by Premchand. Translated by David Rubin. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1998. xv, 152 pp. $18.95 (cloth).

A History of India. By Burton Stein. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 1998. xvi, 432 pp. $69.95 (cloth); $26.95 (paper).

Book Reviews—Southeast Asia

The Indonesian Economy in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries: A History of Missed Opportunities. By Anne Booth. London: Macmillan, 1998; New York: St. Martin's Press, 1998. xvi, 377 pp. $79.95 (cloth).

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