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Volume 5 - Issue 1 - April 1995

Book Review

Threefold wisdom: Islam, the Arab world and Africa. Papers in honour of Ivan Hrbek. Edited by Otakar Hulec and Miloŝ Mendel, pp. 266, illus. Prague, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Oriental Institute, 1993.

D'Imhotep à Copernic. Astronomie et Mathématiques des origines orientales au moyen Âge. Actes du Colloque International Université Llbre de Bruxelles 3 – 4 Novembre 1989. Edited by Fr. Mawet Et Ph. Talon (Lettres Orientales 2, Cahiers d'Altaïr). pp. 158. Leuven, Peeters 1992. 900 BEF.

Birds of Bahrain. By Tom Nightingale and Mike Hill. pp. 283, 175 pi., 5 maps. London, Immel Publishing Ltd., 1993. £45.00.

Hunted through Central Asia. By Paul Nazaroff, translated by Malcolm Burr, introduction by Peter Hopkirk. pp. xii, 336, map. Oxford and New York, Oxford University Press, 1993. £6.99.

Armenia. Compiled by Vrej Nerses Nersessian. (World Bibliographical Series, 163.) pp. xxiii, 304, 2 maps. Oxford etc., Clio Press, 1993. £49.50.

Bukhara. Edited by Vitaly Naumkin, compiled by Andrei G. Nedvetsky, introduction by D. Y. Arapov (Caught in Time: Great Photographic Archives.) pp. 159, 164 photographs. Reading, Garnet Publishing, 1993. £16.95.

Eastern approaches: essays on Asian art and archaeology. Edited by T. S. Maxwell, pp. xii, 252, 80 illus., 29 figs. Delhi etc., Oxford University Press, 1992. Rs. 500, £20.00.

Corpus of the Arabic and Persian inscriptions of Bengal. By Abdul Karim. pp. xii, 591, 89 plates. Dhaka, Asiatic Society of Bangladesh, 1992. Tk. 800, US $40.00.

Tidings of the King. A translation and ethnohistorical analysis of the Rāyavāacakamu. By Phillip B. Wagoner, pp. xi, 263, 6 figs., 3 maps. Honolulu, University of Hawaii Press, 1993. US $38.00.

The new Cambridge history of India. II. 4. The Marathas 1600–1818. By Stewart Gordon, pp. xv, 202, 9 maps. Cambridge etc., Cambridge University Press, 1993. £24.95

Nehru Memorial Lectures 1966–1991. Edited by John Grigg. pp. viii, 262, front., 15 pi. Delhi etc., Oxford University Press, 1992. Rs 150, £12.50.

La notion de saṃskāra dans l'Inde brahmanique et bouddhique. Tome II. By Lakshmi Kapani. (Collège de France, Publications de l'lnstitut de Civilisation indienne, Série in-8°, Fasc. 59, 2.) pp. 321–600. Paris, Édition-Diffusion de Boccard, 1993. 290 FF.

Evil and the retributive hypothesis. By G. C. Nayak. pp. iii, 204. New Delhi, Motilal Banarsidass, 1993. Rs 225.

Ritual in an oscillating universe: worshipping Śiva in medieval India. By Richard H. Davis. pp. xvi, 200, 6 illus., 11 figs. Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press, 1991. US $35.00.

The feminine principle in the Sikh vision of the transcendent. By Nikky-Guninder Kaur Singh. (Cambridge Studies in Religious Traditions, 3.) pp. xii, 318. Cambridge etc., Cambridge University Press, 1993. £37.50.

The little clay cart. An English translation of the Mṛcchakaṭika of Śūdraka as adapted for the stage BY A. L. Basham. Edited by Arvind Sharma, and introduced by Robert E. Goodwin. (SUNY Series in Hindu Literature.) pp. xii, 175. Albany, NY, State University of New York Press, 1994. US $14.95.

Narratives of empire: the fictions of Rudyard Kipling. By Zohreh T. Sullivan, p. xii, 199. Cambridge etc., Cambridge University Press, 1993. £27.95.

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Volume 5 - Issue 1 - April 1995

Book Review