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Volume 122 - Issue 1 - January 1990

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The Method of the Vedanta: a critical account of the Advaita tradition. By SriSwami Satchidanandendra Sarasvati. Translated from the Sanskrit by A. J. Alston, pp. xxx, 975. London and New York, Kegan Paul International, 1989. £65.00.

Pāṇini: his work and its traditions. Volume One: background and introduction. By George Cardona. pp. xxiv, 671. Delhi, etc., Motilal Banarsidass, 1988. Rs. 175.

Aurobindo and Zaehner on the Bhagavad-Gītā. By Yvonne Williams and Michael McElvaney. (The Sanskrit Tradition in the Modern World.) pp. iv, 39, Newcastle upon Tyne, S.Y. Killingley, distrib. by Grevatt and Grevatt, 1988. £4.00.

Veda recitation in Vārāṇasī. By Wayne Howard, pp. xi, 400. Delhi, Motilal Banarsidass, 1988. Rs. 225.

Mahāyāna Buddhism: the doctrinal foundations. By Paul Williams. (The Library of Religious Beliefs and Practices.) pp. xii, 371. London and New York, Routledge, 1989. £30.00 (cloth), £9.95 (paperback).

The forest book of the Rāmāyaṇa of Kampaṉ. Translated, with annotation, and introduction, by George L. Hart and Hank Heifetz. pp. ix, 402 + errata slip. Berkeley etc., University of California Press, 1988. US $35.00.

Sati: historical and phenomenological essays. By Arvind Sharma with Ajit Ray Alaka Hejib and Katherine K. Young with a foreword by M. N. Srinivas. pp. xvii, 129. Delhi etc., Motilal Banarsidass, 1988. Rs. 75.

The Devs of Cincvad: a lineage and the state in Maharashtra. By Laurence W. Preston. (Cambridge South Asian Studies, 41.) pp. xi, 271, 12 figs. Cambridge etc., Cambridge University Press, 1989. £30.00.

Religion and pilgrim tax under the Company raj. By Nancy Gardner Cassels. (South Asia Institute, Heidelberg University, South Asian Studies No. XVII.) pp. xii, 184, 4 pl. New Delhi, Manohar Publications, and Stuttgart, Franz Steiner Verlag Wiesbaden GmbH, 1988. DM 44.

Who is a Sikh? The problem of Sikh identity By W. H. McLeod. pp. xi, 140. Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1989, £19.50.

Nepali: a national language and its literature. By M. J. Hutt, pp. xii, 252, map. London, School of Oriental and African Studies and New Delhi, Sterling Publishers Private Ltd., 1988. £12.00.

The Cambridge Encyclopedia of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bhután and the Maldives. Edited by Francis Robinson, pp. 520, illus. in col. and bl. and wh., maps. Cambridge etc., Cambridge University Press, 1989. £30.00.

Southeast Asia in the age of Commerce 1450–1680. Volume One: the lands below the winds. by Anthony Reid. pp. xvi, 275, illus., 4 maps. New Haven and London, Yale University Press, 1988. £20.00.

In search of Southeast Asia: a modern history. Edited by David Joel Steinberg, pp. xi, 590, 5 maps and figs. Honolulu, University of Hawaii Press, 1987. £17.00.

The commerce in rubber: the first 250 years. by Austin Coates. pp. xv, 380, 50 pi., 3 maps (2 on endpapers). Singapore etc., Oxford University Press, 1987. (Commissioned by the Singapore International Chamber of Commerce Rubber Association.) £25.00.

Burmese entrepreneurship: creative response in the colonial economy. by Aung Tun Thet. (Beiträge zur Südasienforschung, Südasien-Institut, Universität Heidelberg, Band 126.) pp. xvi, 197. Stuttgart, Franz Steiner Verlag Wiesbaden GmbH, 1989. DM 36.

A full hearing: orality and literacy in the Malay world. By Amin Sweeney, pp. ix, 338. Berkeley etc., University of California Press, 1987. US $37.50.

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