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Volume 47 - Issue 1 - February 1988

Book Reviews—South Asia

Atlas of South Asia, Fully Annotated. By Ashok K. Dutt and M. Margaret Geib. Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 1987. xxii, 231 pp. $28.00 (cloth); $15.00 (paper).

Islam et société en Asie du Sud / Islam and Society in South Asia. Edited by Marc Gaborieau. Éditions de l'École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, no. 9. Paris: Collection Purusartha, 1986. French and English text. 203 pp. 170 F.

South Asian Studies; Papers Presented at a Colloquium, 24–26 April 1985. Edited by Albertine Gaur. British Library Occasional Papers, 7. London: The British Library, 1986. xvii, 327 pp.

On Being Mindless: Buddhist Meditation and the Mind-Body Problem. By Paul Griffiths. La Salle, Ill.: Open Court Publishing Co., 1986. xxii, 220 pp. $12.95.

The Origin of the Young God: Kālidāsa's Kumārasambhava. Translated by Hank Heifetz. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1985. xii, 180 pp. $30.00.

The Religions of the Hindukush. Vol. 1: The Religion of the Kafirs—The Pre-Islamic Heritage of Afghan Nuristan. By Karl Jettmar. Translated by Adam Nayyar. Wiltshire, England: Aris and Phillips Ltd., 1986. ix, 172 pp. $35.00.

Crime and Punishment in Ancient India. By Tarapada Lahiri. New Delhi: Radiant Publishers, 1986. xviii, 207 pp. $22.50.

Encyclopaedia of Indian Temple Architecture: South India—Upper Drāviḍadēśa, Early Phase, a.d. 550–1075. Edited by Michael W. Meister and M. A. Dhaky. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1986. Vol. 1: Text (xiv, 249 pp.). Vol. 2: Plates (viii, 656 illustrations). $85.00.

Police Brutality: An Analysis of Police Behaviour. By Sailendra Misra. Delhi: Vikas Publishing House, 1986. vi, 139 pp. $22.50.

Structural Depths of Indian Thought. By P. T. Raju. SUNY Series in Philosophy. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1985. xxxii, 599 pp.

After the Raj: British Novels of India Since 1947. By David Rubin. Hanover, N.H.: University Press of New England, 1986. xiv, 197 pp. $19.95.

Weber im Wettbewerb: Das Schicksal des Südindischen Textilhandwerks im 19. Jahrhundert [Weavers in competition: The fate of the South Indian handloom weavers in the nineteenth century]. By Konrad Specker. Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag, 1984. xii, 302 pp. DM 48.

Book Reviews—Southeast Asia

The Burden of Proof: The Laurel-Vargas Collaboration Case. By Teodoro A. Agoncillo. Manila: University of the Philippines Press, 1984. xii, 462 pp. $28.00. (Distributed by University of Hawaii Press)

Muang Metaphysics: A Study of Northern Thai Myth and Ritual. By Richard Davis. Bangkok: Pandora Press, 1984. 324 pp. - Place and Emotion in Northern Thai Ritual Behavior. By Gehan Wijeyewardene. Bangkok: Pandora Press, 1982. 274 pp.

China and Vietnam: The Roots of Conflict. By William J. Duiker. Indochina Research Monograph 1. Berkeley: University of California, Institute of East Asian Studies, 1986. x, 136 pp. $10.00 (paper).

Indonesian Batik: Processes, Patterns, and Places. By Sylvia Fraser-Lu. Singapore: Oxford University Press, 1986. 108 pp.

The Hmong World. Edited by Brenda Johns and David Strecker. New Haven: Yale University, Southeast Asia Studies, 1986. ii, 258 pp. $6.00 (paper).

Singapore Studies: Critical Surveys of the Humanities and Social Sciences. Edited by Basant K. Kapur. Singapore: Singapore University Press, 1986. xi, 486 pp. $33.00.

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