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Volume 42 - Issue 3 - May 1983

Book Reviews—South Asia

The Bangladesh Revolution and its Aftermath. By Talukder Maniruzzaman. Dacca: Bangladesh Books, 1980. xvi, 244 pp. Appendix, Indexes. $10 (cloth); $8 (paper).

Islamic Revival in British India: Deoband, 1860–1900. By Barbara Daly Metcalf. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1982. xiv, 386 pp. Notes, Glossary, Bibliography, Index, Illustrations. $27.50.

The Ascent of Self. By B. N. Parimoo. New Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, 1978. xxxiv, 209 pp. N.p.

Coastal Western India: Studies from the Portuguese Records. By M. N. Pearson. New Delhi: Concept Publishing, 1981. xxviii, 138 pp. Appendix, Index. Rs. 60 (cloth).

Indiyskiy Natsional'nyy Kongress: Ocherki Ideologii i Politiki (60-e i pervaya polovina 70-kh godov) [The Indian National Congress: Studies on Ideology and Politics (1960s and first half of the 1970s)]. By Aleksandr Ivanovich Reginin. Moscow: Nauka, 1978. 296pp. Bibliography, Tables. 2 rubles.

Jaina Community, a Social Survey. By Vilas Adinath Sangave. 2d rev. ed.Bombay: Popular Prakashan, 1980. xv, 455 pp. Appendixes, Bibliography, Index. Rs. 120 (cloth).

The Social Framework of an Indian Factory. By N. R. Sheth. New Delhi: Hindustan Publishing, 1981. xxi, 166 pp. Appendixes, Bibliography, Index. Rs. 60 (cloth).

Śivasūtra et Vimarśinī de Kṣemarāja. By Lilian Silburn. Paris: Institut de Civilisation Indienne, 1980. 182 pp. Bibliography, Sanskrit Index. N.p.

Peasant Mobility: The Odds of Life in Rural Bangladesh. By Willem van Schendel. Assen: Van Gorcum, 1981. xii, 333 pp. Glossary, References, Appendixes, Index, f. 61 (paper).

Book Reviews—Southeast Asia

Art, Ritual and Society in Indonesia. Edited by Edward Bruner and Judith Becker. Athens, Ohio: Ohio University, Center for International Studies (Southeast Asian Series, no. 53), 1979. vii, 189 pp. $13 (paper).

Courting Poetry in Laos: A Textual and Linguistic Analysis. By Carol J. Compton. DeKalb, Ill.: Northern Illinois University, Center for Southeast Asian Studies (Special Report 18), 1979. xi, 252 pp. Glossary, Appendixes, Bibliography, Index. $9 (paper). (Distributed by The Cellar Book Shop.)

The Sociology of Secret Societies: A Study of Chinese Secret Societies in Singapore and Peninsular Malaysia. By Mak Lau Fong. Kuala Lumpur: Oxford University Press, 1981. ix, 178 pp. Tables, Maps, Diagrams, Appendixes, Bibliography, Index. $29.95.

Indonesia: Australian Perspectives. Edited by J. J. Fox, R. G. Garnaut, P T. McCawley, and J. A. C. Mackie. 3 vols. Canberra: Australian National University Research School of Pacific Studies, 1980. ix, 772 pp. References, Tables, Maps, Index. A$24 (paper).

Breaking the Chains of Oppression of the Indonesian People: Defense Statement at His Trial on Charges of Insulting the Head of State. By Heri Akhmadi. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell Modern Indonesia Project (Translation Series, no. 59), 1981. viii, 178 pp. Charts, Glossary, Appendixes. $8.75 (paper).

British Rule in Malaya: The Malayan Civil Service and Its Predecessors, 1867–1942. By Robert Heussler. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press (Contributions in Comparative Colonial Studies, no. 6), 1981. xx, 356 pp. Map, Photographs, Bibliography, Index. $37.50.

British Investment in Malaysia, 1963–1971. By Junid Saham. New York: Oxford University Press (East Asian Social Science Monographs), 1981. xxi, 353 pp. Bibliography, Index, Tables, Figures. $39.50.

Administration in the Federated Malay States: 1896–1920. By Jagjit Singh Sidhu. New York: Oxford University Press, 1981. xvii, 277 pp. Map, Appendixes, Bibliography, Index. $24.95 (cloth)

Burma's Road Toward Development: Growth and Ideology Under Military Rule. By David I. Steinberg. Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 1982. xix, 233 pp. Maps, Tables, Charts, Glossary, Bibliography, Index, Notes. $27.50.

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