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The Indian Left: Critical Appraisals. Edited by Bipan Chandra. New Delhi: Vikas Publishing House, 1983. 452 pp. Index. N.p. (Distributed by Advent Books, New York, N.Y.)
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Shikitei Sanba and the Comic Tradition in Edo Fiction. By Robert W. Leutner. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University, Council on East Asian Studies and Harvard-Yenching Institute, 1985. (Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series 25) xxi, 232 pp. Notes, An Annotated Translation of Portions of Ukiyoburo, Notes to the Translation, Bibliography, Glossary, Index. $21. (Distributed by Harvard University Press)
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- 23 March 2011, pp. 158-159
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Bhagavad Gītā: Translation and Commentary. By Richard Gotshalk. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, 1985. Translation, Commentary, Notes, Indexes, xvi, 243 pp. $17.50. (Distributed in the U.S. by South Asia Books.) - Modern Indian Interpreters of the Bhagavadgītā. Edited and introduced by Robert N. Minor. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1986. Notes, Contributors, Indexes, viii, 273 pp. $39-50 (cloth); $12.95 (paper).
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- 23 March 2011, pp. 937-938
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Waves: Two Short Novels. By Masuji Ibuse. Translated by David Aylward and Anthony Liman. Tokyo: Kodansha International, 1986. 171 pp. Map, Notes, Bibliographies. $17.95.
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- 23 March 2011, pp. 660-661
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Agrarian Power and Agricultural Productivity in South Asia. Edited by Meghnad Desai, Susanne Hoeber Rudolph, and Ashok Rudra. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1984. (Sponsored by the Joint Committee on South Asia of the Social Science Research Council and the American Council of Learned Societies.) 384 pp. $25.00.
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Sand and Pebbles (Shasekishū): The Tales of Mujū Ichien, A Voice for Pluralism in Kamakura Buddhism. By Mujū Ichien. Translated by Robert E. Morrell. Albany, N.Y.: State University of New York Press, 1985. xxii, 383 pp. Illustrations, Appendixes, Notes, Glossary of Selected Characters, Selected Bibliography, General Bibliography, Index. $39.50 (cloth); $14.95 (paper).
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- 23 March 2011, pp. 159-161
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The Diary of Kido Takayoshi. Vol. 3: 1874–1877. By Kido Takayoshi. Translated by Sidney DeVere Brown and Akiko Hirota. Tokyo: University of Tokyo Press, 1986. xlix, 1, 549 pp. Translator's Introduction, Glossary of English Terms Used for Offices and Officials, Select Bibliography, Notes, Index, General Index: Volumes 1–3. $77.50. (Distributed by Columbia University Press.)
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- 23 March 2011, pp. 661-662
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The State and Peasant Politics in Sri Lanka. By Mick Moore. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985. xv, 328 pp. Maps, Tables, Glossary, Appendixes, Notes, Bibliography, Index. $44.50.
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- 23 March 2011, pp. 939-940
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Illness and Culture in Contemporary Japan. By Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1984. xiv, 242 pp. Illustrations, References, Index. $37.50 (cloth); $9.95 (paper).
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- 23 March 2011, pp. 161-162
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Organizing Villagers for Self-Reliance: A Study of Gonoshasthya Kendra in Bangladesh. By Jayanta Kumar Ray. Calcutta: Orient Longman, 1986. vii, 104 pp. Notes. Rs. 25 (paper).
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- 23 March 2011, pp. 940-941
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Land of Volcanic Ash. By Kubo Sakae. Translated by David G. Goodman. Cornell University East Asia Papers 40. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University, China-Japan Program, 1986. viii, 285 pp. Illustrations, Notes, Appendix, Map. $9.00 (paper).
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- 23 March 2011, pp. 662-664
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Hindu Temple Art of Orissa. Vol. 1. By Thomas E. Donaldson. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1985. (Studies in South Asian Culture, vol. 12, pt. 1.) xxii, 562 pp. Maps, Charts, Diagrams, Groundplans, Plate-Figures. $95.00.
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India's Foreign Policy. By V. P. Dutt. New Delhi: Vikas Publishing House, 1984. x, 447 pp. Index. $35.00. (Distributed in the U.S. By Advent Books, New York, N.Y.)
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Hitomaro and the Birth of Japanese Lyricism. By Ian Hideo Levy. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1984. x, 174 pp. Selected Bibliography, Index of Poems, General Index. $20.00.
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- 23 March 2011, pp. 664-666
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Land and Sovereignty in India: Agrarian Society and Politics Under the Eighteenth-Century Maratha Svarajya. By Andre Wink. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986. xviii, 417 pp. Glossary, Maps, Diagrams, Key to Selections of Papers from the Records at the East-India House, Bibliography, Index. N.p.
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- 23 March 2011, pp. 941-942
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Shōmonki: The Story of Masakado's Rebellion. Translated and edited by Judith N. Rabinovitch. Tokyo: Sophia University, Monumenta Nipponica, 1986. (Monumenta Nipponica Monograph 58) iv, 168 pp. Illustrations, Maps, Genealogical Tables, Chronology, Bibliography, Index. $ 16 (cloth); $ 10 (paper).
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- 23 March 2011, pp. 162-164
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Trans-Himalayan Traders: Economy, Society, and Culture in Northwest Nepal. By James F. Fisher. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1986. xiv, 232 pp. Appendix, Notes, Bibliography, Index. $35.00.
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Five Political Leaders of Modern Japan. By Yoshitake Oka. Translated by Andrew Fraser and Patricia Murray. Tokyo: University of Tokyo Press, 1986. x, 232 pp. Illustrations, Notes, Index. $24.50. (Distributed by Columbia University Press.)
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- 23 March 2011, pp. 666-667
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Religious Healing in the Veda, with Translations and Annotations of Medical Hymns from the Ṛgveda and the Atharvaveda and Renderings from the Corresponding Ritual Texts. By Kenneth G. Zysk. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, vol. 75, part 7. Philadelphia: The American Philosophical Society, 1985. xviii, 312 pp. Lists of Illustrations, Hymns, and Verses, Appendixes, Bibliography, Indexes. $30.00 (paper).
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- 23 March 2011, pp. 942-944
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Samurai and Silk: A Japanese and American Heritage. By Haru Matsukata Reischauer. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1986. xx, 371 pp. Illustrations, Map, Figures, Notes, Index. $20.
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- 23 March 2011, pp. 164-165
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