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Volume 4 - Issue 3 - November 1994

Book Review

Śaṃkara-mandāra-saurabha: eine Legende über das Leben des Philosophen Śaṃkara. Edited, translated and introduced by Anton Ungemach. (Beiträge zur Südasienforschung, Südasien-Institut, Universität Heidelberg, Band 153). pp. p, 187. Stuttgart, Franz Steiner Verlag, 1992. DM66.

Major trends in Orissan philosophy. By Bijayananda Kar. pp. xiii, 134. Cuttack, Grantha Mandir, 1989. Rs 40.

Nonviolence to animals, earth and self in Asian traditions. By Christopher Key Chapple. (SUNY Series in Religious Studies.) pp. xiv, 146. Albany, NY, State University of New York Press, 1993. US $14.95.

Die Beschreibung Indiens in der “Riḥla” des Ibn Baṭṭūṭa: Aspekte einer herrschafts-soziologischen Einordnung des Delhi-Sultanates unter Muḥammad Ibn Tuġluq. By Stephan Conermann. (Islamkundliche Untersuchungen. Band 165.) pp. vii, 211, Berlin, Klaus Schwarz Verlag, 1993.

The legacy of Muslim rule in India. By K. S. Lal. pp. vi, 406. New Delhi, Aditya Prakashan, 1992. Rs. 350.

Society and ideology: essays in South Asian history presented to Professor K. A. Ballhatchet. Edited by Peter Robb in collaboration with K. N. Chaudhuri and Avril Powell. pp. x, 266. New Delhi etc., Oxford University Press, 1993, £16.95.

The new Cambridge history of India. I. 5. The Mughal empire. By John F. Richards, pp. xvi, 320, 6 maps. Cambridge etc., Cambridge University Press, 1993. £27.95.

India served and observed. By William and Mildred Archer, pp. xviii, 153, 25 illus. Putney, London, BACSA, 1994, £9.00.

True tales of British India and the princely states. Compiled by Michael Wise, with a foreword by Alan Campbell-Johnson, pp. x, 292, 16 illus. Brighton, In Print Publishing Limited, 1993, £11.95.

Nepal and Bhutan. Country studies. Third edition. Edited by Andrea Matles Savada. (Area Handbook Series 550–35.) pp. xxxix, 424, illus., maps. Washington D.C., Federal Research Division, Library of Congress, 1993.

A critical edition of the sGra sbyor bam po gnyis pa. An old and basic commentary onthe Mahāvyutpatti. Edited by Mie Ishikawa. (Studia Tibetica No. 18. Materials for Tibetan-Mongolian Dictionaries, Vol. 2.) pp. 137. Tokyo, The Toyo Bunko, 1990.

Ocean of eloquence: Tsong khap pa's commentary on the Yogācāra doctrine of mind. Introduced and translated by Gareth Sparham in collaboration with Shotoro Iida. (SUNY Series in Buddhist Studies.) pp. xii, 260. Albany, NY, State University of New York Press, 1993. US$12.95.

The chronology of Tibet according to the Re'u-mig of Sum-pa-mKhan-po. Translated and edited by Bireshwar Prasad Singh, foreword by Shri S. K. Jha. (Rahula Collection Series No. 3.) pp. xvi, 283. Patna, The Bihar Research Society, 1991. Rs. 750.

Power and religiosity ina post-colonial setting: Sinhala Catholics in contemporary Sri Lanka. By R. L. Stirbat. (Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology, 87.) pp. xx, 231, 4 figs., 2 maps. Cambridge etc., Cambridge University Press, 1992. £35.00.

The Cambridge history of Southeast Asia. Vol. 2. The nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Edited by Nicholas Tarling. pp. xi, 706, 6 maps. Cambridge etc., Cambridge University Press, 1992. £55.00.

South East Asia: a Guide to reference material. By Andrew Dalby. (Regional Reference Guides, 2). pp. xiv, 302. London etc., Hans Zell, 1993. £55.00.

L'europe et le Slam du xvie au xviiie siècle: apports culturels. By Michel Jacq-Hergoualc'h. (Collections Recherches Asiatiques. Travaux du Centre d'histoire et Civilisations de la Péninsule Indochinoise.) pp. 302, 16 col. pl, 16 bl. and wh. pl., 3 figs. Paris, Éditions L'Harmattan, 1993.

Hindu Gods at Sukhodaya. By M. C. Subhadradis Diskul, English version by the author and A. B. Griswold. pp. xv, 132, illus. Bangkok, White Lotus Co. Ltd., 1990.

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