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Volume 112 - Issue 1 - January 1980

Reviews of Books

Poems to the child-god: structures and strategies in the poetry of Sūrdās. By Kenneth E. Bryant, pp. xvi, 247. Berkeley, etc., University of California Press, 1978. £9.75.

A study of Yoga. By Jajneswar Ghosh, pp. xi, 276. Delhi, Motilal Banarsidass, second, revised, edition, 1977. Cloth, Rs. 60; paper, Rs. 45.

Indian Studies in Philosophy. By Ramchandra Pandeya. pp. x, 229. Delhi, Motilal Banarsidass, 1977. Rs. 45.

Essays in classical and modern Hindu law. vols. II–IV. By J. Duncan M. Derrett. pp. xix, 310; xxvi, 414; xx, 454. Leiden, E. J. Brill, 1977–1978. Guilders 112 each.

Kabīr, the apostle of Hindu-Muslim unity. By Muhammad Hedayetullah. pp. 320. Delhi, Motilal Banarsidass, 1977. Rs. 60.

India's political economy, 1947–1977: the gradual revolution. By Francine R. Frankel. pp. 600. Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1978. Cloth £21.90; paper £7.90.

Indian and British English: a handbook of usage and pronunciation. By Paroo Nihalani, R. K. Tongue and Riya Hosali. pp. viii, 260. Delhi, Oxford University Press, 1979. £4.50.

Māyā divine and humane: a study of magic and its religious foundations in Sanskrit texts, with particular attention to a fragment on Viṣṇu's Māyā preserved in Bali. By Teun Goudriaan. pp. xiv, 516. Delhi, Motilal Banarsidass, 1978. Rs. 100.

Early South East asia: Essays in archaeology, history, and historical geography. Edited by R. B. Smith and W. Watson, pp. xv, 561, 16 plates, 6 maps. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1979. £18.

Dynamics of Indonesian history. Edited by Haryati Soebadio and Carine A. du Marchie Sarvaas. pp. xvi, 395. Amsterdam, etc., North-Holland Publishing Co., 1978. US $ 53.25/Guilders 120.

China in antiquity. By Henri Maspero. Translated by Frank A. KiermanJr., pp. xxxii, 527, 3 maps. Folkestone, Dawson, 1978. £20.

Le Mu Tianzi zhuan; traduction annotée, étude critique. By Rémi Mathieu. (Mémoires de l'Institut des Hautes Études Chinoises, Vol. IX.) pp. 314, 56 pages of Chinese text. Paris, Collège de France, 1978.

Bitter gourd: Fang I-chih and the impetus for intellectual change. By Willard J. Peterson, pp. xv, 228, map, Chinese text and genealogical chart. New Haven and London, Yale University Press, 1979.

A Concise Manchu-English lexicon. By Jerry Norman. (Publications on Asia of the School of International Studies, No. 32.) pp. xii, 320. Seattle and London, University of Washington Press, 1978. £14.

Biographical dictionary of Republican China. Vol. V: a personal name index. Compiled By Jane Krompart. pp. xiii, 75. New York, Columbia University Press, 1979. US $ 31.25.

Chinese family law and social change in historical and comparative perspective. Edited by David C. Buxbaum. (Asian Law Series, 3.) pp. viii, 553, bibliography. Seattle and London, University of Washington Press, 1978. £14.

Union list of Chinese local histories in British libraries. By Andrew Morton, pp. xiii, 140. Oxford, China Library Group, 1979.

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