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Volume 38 - Issue 2 - February 1979

Book Reviews—China

A Handbook on Chinese Language Structure. By Henry Henne, Ole Bjorn Rongen, and Lars Jul Hansen. Oslo: Universitetsforlaget, Scandinavian University Books, 1977. xiv, 293 pp. References, Index. $20.00. (Distributed by Columbia University Press.)

Book Reviews—Japan

The Emperor Horikawa Diary (Sanuki no Suke nikki). By Fujiwara no Nagako. Translated with an Introduction by Jennifer Brewster. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1978. xi, 155 pp. Introduction, Translation, Notes, Bibliography, Index. $14.00.

Kurusu: The Price of Progress in a Japanese Village, 1951–1975. By Robert J. Smith. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1978. xiv, 269 pp. Bibliography, Index. $ 15.00 (cloth).

Book Reviews—Korea

Confucian Gentlemen and Barbarian Envoys: The Opening of Korea, 1875–1885. By Martina Deuchler. Seattle and London: University of Washington Press (Published for the Royal Asiatic Society Korea Branch), 1977. 310 pp. Illustrations. $17.00.

Political Leadership in Korea. Edited by Dae-sook Suh and Chae-jin Lee. Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 1976. xvi, 272 pp. Appendix, Notes, Index. $9.50.

Book Reviews—South Asia

Defining a Linguistic Area: South Asia. By Colin P. Masica. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1976. xiii, 234 pp. Illustrations, Appendixes, Bibliography, Index. $16.00.

Ramayana. By William Buck. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1976. xxxi, 432 pp. Illustrations. $14.95.

The Vedic Experience: Mantramañjarī. An Anthology of the Vedas for Modern Man and Contemporary Celebration. Edited and translated by Raimundo Panikkar. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1977. xxxviii, 937 pp. Notes, Glossary, Indexes. $30.00.

The Rajput Rebellion against Aurangzeb: A Study of the Mughal Empire in Seventeenth Century India. By Robert C. Hallissey. Columbia and London: University of Missouri Press, 1977. xi, 119 pp. Maps, Notes, Glossary, Bibliography, Index. $ 11.50.

Much Maligned Monsters: History of European Reactions to Indian Art. By Partha Mitter. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1977. xix, 351 pp. Plates, Map, Appendixes, Bibliography, Index. $28.75.

Imperial Crime and Punishment: The Massacre at Jallianwala Bagh and British Judgment, 1919–1920. By Helen Fein. Honolulu: University Press of Hawaii, 1977. xix, 250 pp. Appendixes, Bibliography, Index. $12.00.

The Hindu Personality in Education: Tagore, Gandhi, Aurobindo. By William Cenker. New Delhi: Manohar, 1976. 230 pp. Glossary, Bibliography, Index. Rs. 50.00. (Distributed by South Asia Books.)

An Autobiography. By K. M. Panikkar. Translated by K. Krishnamurthy. Madras: Oxford University Press, 1977. vii, 372 pp. Illustrations, Appendix, Index. Rs. 70.00; $12.50.

North West Frontier Province Legislature and Freedom Struggle, 1932–47. By Amit Kumar Gupta. New Delhi: Indian Council of Historical Research, 1976. xv, 239 pp. Appendix, Bibliography, Index. Rs. 30.00.

Governmental Systems and Development. By V. A. Pai Panandiker. Bombay: Popular Prakashan, 1976. xiv, 124 pp. Bibliography. Rs. 20.00 (paper).

Separate and Unequal: India and the Indians in the British Commonwealth, 1920–1950. By Hugh Tinker. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 1976. 460 pp. Notes, Select Bibliography, Index. $18.50.

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Volume 38 - Issue 2 - February 1979

Book Reviews—China

Book Reviews—Japan

Book Reviews—Korea

Book Reviews—South Asia