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Volume 46 - Issue 2 - May 1987

Book Reviews—South Asia

The Wisdom of the Heart: A Study of the Works of Mulk Raj Anand. By Marlene Fisher. New Delhi: Sterling Publishers, 1985. Bibliography, Index. $27.50.

Industry and Inequality: The Social Anthropology of Indian Labour. By Mark Holmstrom. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984. x, 342 pp. Index. $44.50.

The Rani of Jhansi: A Study in Female Heroism in India. By Joyce Lebra-Chapman. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1986. xvi, 200 pp. Maps, Glossary, Bibliography, Index. $25.00.

Daughters of Independence: Gender, Caste, and Class in India. By Joanna Liddle and Rama Joshi. London: Zed Books, 1986. viii, 264 pp. Statistical Tables, Bibliography, Index. $10.95 (paper).

New Dimensions of Social Stratification in Rural Sri Lanka. By Jayanantha Perera. Colombo: Lake House Investments, 1985. xvi, 212 pp. Tables, Appendix, Glossary, Maps, Bibliography, Index. N.p.

Indian Labour Movement. By G. Ramanujam. New Delhi: Sterling Publishers, 1986. xvi, 423 pp. Index. $45.00.

From Lineage to State: Social Formations in the Mid-First Millennium B.C. in the Ganga Valley. By Romila Thapar. Bombay: Oxford University Press, 1984. 189 pp. Bibliography, Index. Rs. 110.

A New Face of Hinduism: The Swaminarayan Religion. By Raymond B. Williams. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984. 217 pp. Photographs, Glossary, Index. $12.95 (paper).

Book Reviews—Southeast Asia

Malay Kinship. By David Banks. Philadelphia: ISHI, 1983. viii, 200 pp. Maps, Photographs, Tables, Figures, Bibliography, Index. N.p.

Pérégrinations javanaises: Les voyages de R. M. A. Purwa Lelana—une vision de Java au XIXe siècle (c. 1860–1875). By Marcel Bonneff. Paris: Éditions de la Maison des Sciences de l'Homme, 1986. 384 pp. Index. N.p.

Hindu Javanese: Tengger Tradition and Islam. By Robert W. Hefner. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1985. xii, 291 pp. Maps, Tables, Photographs, Bibliography, Index. $36.00.

Islamic Law in South-East Asia. By M. B. Hooker. Singapore: Oxford University Press, 1984. xxx, 330 pp. Tables, Bibliography, Index. $47.50.

Bibliography and Index of Mainland Southeast Asian Languages and Linguistics. By Franklin E. Huffman. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1986. xxxii, 640 pp. Lists of Abbreviations Used in the Bibliography and Index, Bibliography, Language and Subject Index. N.p.

Sangha, State, and Society: Thai Buddhism in History. By Yoneo Ishii. Translated by Peter Hawkes. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1986. 193 pp. List of Abbreviations, Figures, Tables, Index. $22.00 (cloth); $ 14.00 (paper).

Bridge and Barrier: Transport and Communications in Colonial Malaya, 1870–1957. By Amarjit Kaur. Singapore: Oxford University Press, 1985. xx, 235 pp. Tables, Maps, Figures, List of Abbreviations, Note on Currency Values and Weights, Glossary, Appendixes, Bibliography, Index. N.p.

Traditional Agriculture in Southeast Asia: A Human Ecology Perspective. Edited by Gerald G. Marten. Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 1986. xxvi, 358 pp. Figures, Tables, Illustrations, Maps, Appendix, Index. $36.50 (cloth).

Malaysia: Tradition, Modernity, and Islam. By R. S. Milne and Diane K. Mauzy. Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, Nations of Contemporary Asia, 1986. xix, 201 pp. Illustrations, List of Special Terms and Concepts, List of Acronyms, Notes, Bibliography, Index. $28.00.

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