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Volume 45 - Issue 2 - February 1986

Book Reviews—South Asia

Fluid Signs: Being a Person the Tamil Way. By E. Valentine Daniel. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1985. xiv, 320 pp. Bibliography, Index. $29.95.

Where Kings and Gods Meet: The Royal Centre at Vijayanagara, India. By John M. Fritz, George Mitchell, and M. S. Nagaraja Rao. Preface by Burton Stein. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1985. 158 pp. Bibliography, Maps, Plans, Elevation Drawings. N.p.

The Rāmāyaṇa of Vālmīki: An Epic of Ancient India. Vol. 1: Bālakānda. Introduction and Translation by Robert P. Goldman. Annotation by Robert P. Goldman and Sally J. Sutherland. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1985. xx, 429 pp. Glossary, Bibliography, Index. $50.

India Under Pressure: Prospects for Political Stability. By Robert L. HardgraveJr., Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 1984. xiii, 214 pp. $18.50.

The Bijak of Kabir. Translated by Linda Hess and Shukdev Singh. Essays and Notes by Linda Hess. San Francisco: North Point Press, 1983. xv, 200 pp. Notes, Glossary, Select Bibliography. $12.50.

The Making of a Colonial Mind: A Quantitative Study of the Bhadralok in Calcutta, 1857–1885. By John McGuire. Canberra: Australian National University Press, 1983. xiii, 283 pp. Notes, Bibliography, Appendixes, Index. $22. (Distributed in the U.S. by South Asia Books, Columbia, Mo.)

Theater of Memory: The Plays of Kālidāsa. Edited by Barbara Stoler Miller. New York: Columbia University Press, 1984. xiv, 387 pp. Notes to the Introduction, Notes to the Plays, Selected Bibliography. $30 (cloth); $12 (paper).

The Warrior Merchants: Textiles, Trade, and Territory in South India. By Mattison Mines. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984. xiii, 178 pp. References, Glossary, Index. $34.50.

Orientalism, Poetry, and the Millennium: The Checkered Life of Nathaniel Brassey Halhed, 1751–1830. By Rosane Rocher. Columbia, Mo.: South Asia Books, 1983. vii, 336 pp. Illustrations, Appendixes, Bibliography, Index. $44.

Islam in India: Studies and Commentaries. Vol. 2: Religion and Religious Education. Edited by Christian W. Troll. New Delhi: Vikas Publishing House, 1985. xx, 315 pp. Index. Rs. 150.

The India Office, 1858–1869. By Donovan Williams. Hoshiarpur: Vishveshvaranand Vedic Research Institute, 1983. 590 pp. Appendixes, Index. Rs. 250; $40. (Distributed in the United States by South Asia Books, Columbia, Mo.)

Drama as a Mode of Religious Realization: The Vidagdhamādhava of Rūpa Gosvāmī. By Donna M. Wulff. Chico, Calif.: Scholars Press, 1984. x, 270 pp. Glossary, Bibliography. $14.95.

Book Reviews—Southeast Asia

The End of Absolute Monarchy in Siam. By Benjamin A. Batson. Singapore: Oxford University Press, 1984. (Asia Studies of Australia Southeast Asia Publications Series, no. 10.) xviii, 349 pp. Plates, Abbreviations, Glossary, Appendixes, Bibliography, Index. $12.95 (paper).

Dynamics of Dissent in Indonesia: Sawito and the Phantom Coup. By David Bourchier. Ithaca, N. Y.: Cornell University, Modern Indonesia Project, Southeast Asia Program, 1984. (Interim Report Series, no. 63.) iv, 136 pp. Glossary. $9 (paper).

The War Against East Timor. By Carmel Budiardjo and Liem Soei Liong. London: Zed Books, 1984. xviii, 253 pp. Map, Glossary, Chronology, Photos, Notes, Bibliography, Index. £18.95 (cloth); £6.95 (paper).

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