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Volume 90 - Issue 3-4 - July 1958

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Chinese Society in Thailand. By G. William Skinner, pp. xvii + 459, 6 maps, and 3 charts. Cornell University Press and Oxford University Press. £2 12s.

A Combined Index of Chinese Words with Hakka Pronunciations. pp. 137. China Inland Mission, 1957.

Croyances et Pratiques Religieuses des Vietnamiens, Vol. 3. By Father Léopold Cadière. pp. 286. Paris-L'École Française d'Extrême Orient, 1957.

Religious Stone Engravings of Ch'üan-chou. (Ch'üan-chou tsung-chiao shih-k'o.) By Wu Wen Liang. Quarto, pp. 66 + 94 pages of photographic plates. Published by the K'o Hsüeh Ch'u Pan She, Peking, Autumn, 1957, and distributed by the New China Publishing House. Price: Y4.30.

Een 16de Eeuwse Maleise Vertaling van de Burda van Al-Būṣīrī. Ed. and, transl. by G. W. J. Drewes. Verhandelingen van het Kon. Inst. voor Taal-Land-en Volken-kunde. Deel XVIII, 1955.

Fijian Grammar. By G. B. Milner. pp. vii + 150. Government Press, Fiji, 1956.

Malaya—A Political and Economic Appraisal. By Lennox A. Mills, pp. i–ix + 1–234. 30s.

Angkor. Hommes et pierres. By Bernard Philippe Groslier 231 pp. B. Arthaud, 1956.

Une Sous Caste de l'Inde du Sud. By Louis Dumont. pp. 460. International University Booksellers, Store Street, London, 1975. £3 2s.

Approach to Reality. By Anant Ganesh Javadekar. pp. x + 194. Oriental Institute Baroda, 1957.

Tattva-Darśana, with the Manorama Commentary. By Acarya Jwala Prasad. Part I (Knowledge and Reality), with the English Translation, pp. 69 (Sanskrit Text); pp. xv, 58 (English Text). Shri Shivaji Loka-Vidyapitha Publication, No. 1.

Ancient History of Saurashtra. (Being a study of the Maitrakas of Valabhī, fifth to eighth centuries A.D.) By Krishnakumari J. Virji. pp. vi + 354, 2 plates, 3 maps. Konkan Institute of Arts and Sciences, Bombay, 1952. Rs. 22.8.

Economic Life of Northern India in the Gupta Period (c. A.D. 300–550). By Sachindra Kumar Maity. pp. xviii + 223, with a map and one illus. The World Press, Calcutta, 1957. Rs. 12.50 or 21s.

Ollari; A Dravidian Speech. By Sudhibhushan Bhattacharya (Department of Anthropology, Government of India, Memoir No. 3, 1956). pp. x + 78. Delhi, Manager of Publications, 1957.

The Mahābhārata. Edited by V. S. Sukthankara and S. K. Belvalkar. Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute, Poona. Fascicule 17. H. D. Velankar and V. G. Paranjpe, 1956. Fascicule 30. R. N. Dandekar, 1956.

Some Observations on the Relations between “Gods” and “Powers” in the Veda. A Propos of the Phrase Sūnuḥ Sahasaḥ. By J. Gonda. pp. 107. Mouton and Co., 's-Gravenhage, 1957.

History of Jaina Monachism from Inscriptions and Literature. By S. B. Deo. pp. xi + 655. Deccan College Postgraduate and Research Institute. Poona, 1956. (Deccan College Dissertation Series: 17.) Rs. 20.

Buddhism - Bibliographie Bouddhique. Fascicule Annexe XXIII bis. Rétrospective: l'œuvre de Louis de la Vallée Poussin, parMarcelle Lalou. pp. 37. Librairie d'Amérique et d'Orient, Paris, 1955.

Prehistoric Religion. By E. O. James, pp. 300, 14 figs., 3 maps, and 5 charts. Thames and Hudson, 1957. 30s.

Patterns in Comparative Religion. By Mircea Eliade. pp. xv + 484. Sheed and Ward, 1958. 25s.

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