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Volume 1 - Issue 3 - July 1991

Book Review

Śiva's warriors: the Basava Purāna of Pālkuriki Somanātha. Translated from the Telugu by Velcheru Narayana Rao assisted by Gene H. Roghair. (Princeton Library of Asian Translations.) pp. xviii, 321, i illus. Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press, 1990. US $49.50.

Pastoral deities in western India. By Günther-Dietz Sontheimer translated by Anne Feldhaus. pp. xviii, 278, 16 pl., 3 maps. New York and Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1989. £34.00.

A popular dictionary of Sikhism. By W. Owen Cole and Piara Singh Sambhi. pp. 163, 2 maps. London, Curzon Press; Glenn Dale, Maryland, The Riverdale Company, 1990. £4.50.

Envoy of the Raj: the career of Sir Clarmont Skrine. By John Stewart. pp. 239, illus., maps. Maidenhead, Porpoise Books, 1989. £20.55.

Gandhi: prisoner of hope. By Judith M. Brown. pp. xiv, 440, front., illus., 2 maps. New Haven and London, Yale University Press, 1989. £16.95.

Farewell the plumed troop: A memoir of the Indian cavalry 1919–1945. By D. M. Killingley Edided by Dermot Killingley and Siew–Yue Killingley. pp. vi, 134, 8 illus., map. Newcastle upon Tyne, Grevatt & Grevatt, 1990. £12.95.

The City Palace Museum, Udaipur: paintings of Mewar court life. By Andrew Topsfield. (Museums of India.) pp. 170, 119 col. pl., 5 sepia illus., 32 bl. and wh. illus. of inscriptions. Ahmedabad, Mapin Publishing Pvt. Ltd., 1990. £29.95.

Indian theatre: traditions of performance. Edited by Farley P. Richmond Darius L. Swann and Phillip B. Zarrilli. pp. xiv, 487, illus., 6 maps. Honolulu, University of Hawaii Press, 1990. US $48.00 (cloth) $24.95 (paperback).

ThumrĪ in historical and stylistic perspectives. By Peter Manuel. pp. xi, 237 +errata page. Delhi etc., Motilal Banarasidass, 1989. Rs. 300.

AusgewĀhlte Kleine Schriften. By Ernst Waldschmidt, edited by Heinz Bechert and Petra Kieffer-PÜlz. (Glasenapp-Stiftung, Band 29.) pp. xli, 464, illus. Stuttgart, Franz Steiner Verlag Wiesbaden GmbH, 1989. DM 88.

O filozofowaniu HindusÓw: artykuly wybrane/On philosophizing of the Hindus: selected papers. By Stanislaw Schayer, edited by Marek Mejor. pp. xxxiii, 539, illus. Warsaw, Polish Scientific Publishers for the Polish Academy of Sciences, Committee for Oriental Studies, 1988. Cena zl. 1100.

Urdu and Muslim South Asia: studies in honour of Ralph Russell. Edited by Christopher Shackle, pp. xi, 205, front. London, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, 1989. £10.00.

The Buddhist Forum. Volume 1: seminar papers 1987–1988. Edited by Tadeusz Skorupski. pp. vi, 121. London, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London; New Delhi, Heritage Publishers, 1990. £6.00.

The Buddhist Heritage. Papers delivered at the symposium of the same name convened at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, November 1985. Edited by Tadeusz Skorupski. (Buddhica Britannica. Series Continua I.) pp. xi, 276. Tring, The Institute of Buddhist Studies, 1989.

Buddhist hermeneutics. Edited by Donald S. LopezJr (Kuroda Institute: Studies in East Asian Buddhism 6.,) pp. viii, 298. Honolulu, University of Hawaii Press, 1988. US $35.00.

The expedient Utopian: Bandaranaike and Ceylon. By James Manor. pp. xiii, 338, illus., map. Cambridge etc., Cambridge University Press1989. £30.00.

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Volume 1 - Issue 3 - July 1991

Book Review