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Volume 9 - Issue 2 - July 1999

Book Review

Mapping an empire: the geographical construction of British India, 1765–1843. By Matthew H. Edney. pp. xi, 458, 33 maps, 9 tables. Chicago, University of Chicago Press. £27.95.

Gold, Silver & Bronze from Mughal India. By Mark Zebrowski. pp. 368, 645 illus., 117 col. illus. London, Alexandria Press in association with Laurence King, 1997. £75.00

Hyderabad: Memoirs of a City. By Narendra Luther, pp. xiv, 431, 21 illus. London and Hyderabad, Sangam Books by arrangement with Orient Longman, 1995. £39.95.

The Untouchables; subordination poverty and the state in modern India. By Oliver Mendelsohn and Marika Vicziany. pp. xvii, 288. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press. 1998. £50.00.

Os Portugueses eo Mar de Ceilāo: Trato, diplomacia e guerra (1498–1543). By Jorge Manuel Flores. pp. 368, 2 maps. Lisbon, Edicões Cosmos, 1998.

Mohammed Ayub Khuhro: a life of courage in politics. By Hamida Khuhro. p. 576, 32 plates. Lahore, Ferozsons, 1998. Rs. 595.

Kashmir in the crossfire. By Victoria Schofield. pp. 354. London, I. B. Tauris, 1996. £24.95.

Narrative strategies. Essays on South Asian literature and film. Edited by Vasudha Dalmia and Theo Damsteegt. pp. viii, 263. Leiden, Research School CNWS, 1998.

Hindu thought and Carmelite mysticism. By Swami Siddheswarananda. Trans, from French by William Buchanan, pp. xiv, 172. Motilal Banarsidass Private Limited, Delhi, 1998. RS. 295.

A new handbook of living religions. Edited by John R. Hinnells. pp. x, 902, figs., maps and tables. Oxford, Blackwell, 1997. £65.00.

Collected papers. By John Brough. Edited by Minoru Hara and J. C. Wright, pp. xxii, 533. London, School of Oriental and African Studies, 1996. £25.00.

Catalogue of the Pāli and Burmese manuscripts in the library of the Wellcome Institute of Medicine. Prepared by William Pruitt and Roger Bischoff. pp. 187, London, The Wellcome Institute, 1998.

Le Sūtra d'Amida prêché par le Buddha. By Jérôme Ducor. (Schweizer Asiatische Studien Monographien, Band 29/Etudes asiatiques suisses monographies, Volume 29). pp. 215. Bern, Peter Lang, 1998.

Sarvāstivāda Buddhist Scholasticism. By Charles Willemen, Bart Dessein and Collet Cox (Handbook of Oriental Studies II/11). pp. xvii, 341. Leiden, Brill, 1998.

Historical dictionary of Taosim. By Julian F. Pas in cooperation with Man Kam Leung. (Historical Dictionaries of Religions, Philosophies and Movements, No. 18) pp. xliii, 415. Lanham, Md., and London, The Scarecrow Press, 1998. £60.00.

Joseph Needham, Science and Civilisation in China, volume 6, Biology and Biological Technology; Part iii Agro-Industries: Sugarcane Technology and Forestry, by Christian Daniels and Nicholas K. Menzies. pp. xxvii, 740. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1996.

Astronomy and mathematics in ancient China: the Zhou bi suan jing. By Christopher Cullen. (Needham Research Institute Studies 1) pp. xiv, 241, 6 tables, 4 appendices. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1996.

Literati identity and its fictional representations in late imperial China. By Stephen J. Roddy, pp. 315. Stanford, California, Stanford University Press. 1998.

Sob o Signo da Transiçāo. Macau no Século XIX. By Alfredo Gomes Dias. (Memória do Oriente, 11.) pp. 195. Macau, Instituto Português do Oriente, 1998.

Migration and ethnicity in Chinese history: Hakkas, Pengmin, and their neighbours. By Sow-Theng Leong edited By Tim Wright, pp. xix, 234, 1 fig., 11 maps. Stanford, California, Stanford University Press. 1997.

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Book Review