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Volume 59 - Issue 3 - August 2000

Book Reviews—South Asia

Untouchable: Dalits in Modern India. Edited by S. M. Michael. Boulder, Colo.: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1999. xii, 183 pp. $47.00 (cloth).

Camera Indica: The Social Life of Indian Photographs. By Christopher Pinney. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998. 240 pp. $55.00 (cloth); $29.00 (paper).

Another Reason: Science and the Imagination of Modern India. By Gyan Prakash. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1999. xiv, 304 pp. $49.50 (cloth); $17.95 (paper).

Pastoral Politics: Shepherds, Bureaucrats, and Conservation in the Western Himalaya. By Vasant K. Saberwal. Studies in Social Ecology and Environmental History. Madhav Gadgil and Ramachandra Guha, eds. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1999. xviii, 246 pp. Rs. 620.00 (cloth).

The Kādambarīnāṭaka of Narasiṃha: A Dramatic Version of Bāṇa's Classic Kādambarī. By Hideaki Sato. Foreword by A. K. Warder. New Delhi: D. K. Printworld, 1997. xvi, 299 pp. Rs. 600 (cloth).

Hybrid Histories: Forests, Frontiers and Wildness in Western India. By Ajay Skaria. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1999. xxiv, 324 pp. $35.00 (cloth).

Pakistan: A Modern History. By Ian Talbot. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1998. xvi, 432 pp. $35.00 (cloth).

The Thakali: A Himalayan Ethnography. By Michael Vinding. London: Serindia Publications, 1998. ix, 470 pp.

Outside the Fold: Conversion, Modernity, and Belief. By Gauri Viswanathan. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1998. xx, 328 pp. $16.95 (paper).

Book Reviews—Southeast Asia

Architecture of Siam: A Cultural History Interpretation. By Clarence Aasen. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. 366 pp. $85.00 (cloth).

Clash of Spirits: The History of Power and Sugar Planter Hegemony on a Visayan Island. By Filomeno V. Aguilar Jr. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1998. xiv, 314 pp. $49.00 (cloth); $28.95 (paper).

Changing Lives of Hmong Refugee Women. By Nancy Donnelly. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1994. 208 pp. $30.00 (cloth); $14.95 (paper).

Vietnam's Reforms and Economic Growth. By Charles Harvie and Tran Van Hoa. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1997. 256 pp. $65.00 (cloth).

Merchants and Migrants: Ethnicity and Trade Among Yunnanese Chinese in Southeast Asia. By Ann Maxwell Hill. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Southeast Asia Studies, 1998. 178 pp. $32.00 (cloth); $20.00 (paper).

The Politics of Environment in Southeast Asia: Resources and Resistance. Edited by Philip Hirsch and Carol Warren. New York: Routledge, 1998. 325 pp. $85.00 (cloth); $27.99 (paper).

A Moment of Anguish: Singapore in Malaysia and the Politics of Disengagement. By Albert Lau. Singapore: Times Academic Press, 1998. viii, 312 pp. $25.00 (paper).

Why Vietnam Invaded Cambodia: Political Culture and the Causes of War. By Stephen J. Morris. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1999. xiii, 313 pp. $49.50 (cloth); $18.95 (paper).

Outward Appearances: Dressing State and Society in Indonesia. Edited by Henk Schulte Nordholt. Leiden: KITLV Press, distributed by the Cellar Bookshop, 1998. viii, 371 pp. $37.00 (paper).

Obituaries

Ram B. Magal (1923–2000)

George Edmond Taylor (1905–2000)

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Book Reviews—South Asia

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