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Volume 59 - November 2000

Book Reviews—South Asia

Muslim Women of the British Punjab: From Seclusion to Politics. By Dushka Saiyid. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1998. xix, 145 pp. $59–95 (cloth).

Nationalism, Terrorism, Communalism: Essays in Modern Indian History. By Peter Heehs. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1998. x, 174 pp. $22.50 (cloth).

Open Boundaries: Jain Communities and Cultures in Indian History. Edited by John E. Cort. SUNY Series in Hindu Studies. Wendy Doniger, editor. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1998. viil, 264 pp. $24.95 (paper).

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

Ancient Buddhist Scrolls from Gandhāra. The British Library Kharoṣṭhī Fragments. By Richard Salomon. With contributions by Raymond Allchin and Mark Barnard. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1999. xx, 273 pp. $40.00 (paper).

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).

The Delhi Sultanate: A Political and Military History. By Peter Jackson. Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. xx, 367 pp. $64.95 (cloth).

Narrative Strategies: Essays on South Asian Literature and Film. Edited by Vasudha Dalmia and Theo Damsteegt. Leiden: Research School, CNWS, 1998. CNWS Publications No. 66. viii, 263 pp. $22.00 (paper).

Womanhood in the Making: Domestic Ritual and Public Culture in Urban South India. By Mary Elizabeth Hancock. Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 1999. xv, 286 pp. $75.00 (cloth).

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).

Empire of Free Trade: The East India Company and the Making of the Colonial Marketplace. By Sudipta Sen. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1998. iv, 225 pp. $37.50 (cloth).

State, Society and the Environment in South Asia. Edited by Stig Toft Madsen. Man and Nature in Asia Series, Nordic Institute of Asian Studies. Richmond, U.K.: Curzon Press, 1999. xi, 337 pp. $40.00 (cloth).

Rethinking India's Oral and Classical Epics: Draupadī among Rajputs, Muslims, and Dalits. By Alf Hiltebeitel. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 1999. xiv. 560 pp. $60.00 (cloth); $29.00 (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).

Architecture and Arts of the Deccan Sultanates. By George Michell and Mark Zebrowski. The New Cambridge History of India 1:7. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. xxi, 297 pp. $85.00 (cloth).

A Despotism of Law: Crime and Justice in Early Colonial India. By Radhika Singha. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1998. xxx, 342 pp. $32.00 (cloth).

The Trading World of the Tamil Merchant: Evolution of Merchant Capitalism in the Coromandel. By Kanakalatha Mukund. Hyderabad: Orient Longman, 1999. xiv, 206 pp. £15.95 (cloth).

Gandhi's Religion: A Homespun Shawl. By J. T. F. Jordens. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1998. vill, 283 pp. $55.00 (cloth).

Leveling Crowds: Ethnonationalist Conflicts and Collective Violence in South Asia. By Stanley J. Tambiah. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996. 395 pp. $50.00 (cloth); $20.00 (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).

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