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Volume 116 - April 1984

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A Dravidian Etymological Dictionary. By T. Burrow and M. B. Emeneau. pp. xli, 853. Second edition. Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1984.

Studies in “Alberuni's India”. By Arvind Sharma. (Studies in Oriental Religions Vol. 9). pp. vi, 155, Wiesbaden, Otto Harrassowitz, 1983. DM 54.

Sceaux Sasanides De Diverses Collections Privées. By Philippe Gignoux and Rika Gyselen. pp. 209, 30 pl. Leuven, Éditions Peeters, 1982, Bel. fr. 1500.

A History of Christianity in India. The Beginnings to AD 1707. By Stephen Neill. pp. xxi, 583. Cambridge etc., Cambridge University Press, 1984. £45.00.

The Persian Empire. By J. M. Cook. pp. xii, 275, 24 pl. London, etc., J. M. Dent and Sons Ltd., 1983. £12.95.

The Making of Colonial Lucknow 1856–1877. By Veena Talwar Oldenburg, pp. xxv, 287, plans. Princeton, N.J., Princeton University Press, 1984. £30.10.

Birsa Munda and his Movement 1874–1901: A Study of a Millenarian Movement in Chota Nagpur. By K. S. Singh, pp. xviii, 289, 11pl. map (end papers). Calcutta etc., Oxford University Press, 1983. £15.00.

A Manual of Classical Persian Prosody, with Chapters on Urdu, Karakhanidic, and Ottoman Prosody. By Finn Thiesen. pp. xxvi, 274 + foldout table + corrigenda slip. Wiesbaden, Otto Harrassowitz, 1982. DM 36.

Dangerous Wives and Sacred Sisters: Social and Symbolic Roles of High-Caste Women in Nepal. By Lynn Bennett, pp. xiii, 353. New York, Columbia University Press, 1983. US $39.00.

Islamic Metalwork from the Iranian World, 8th–18th Centuries. Victoria and Albert Museum Catalogue. By Assadullah Souren Melikian-Chirvani. pp. 445. London, H.M. Stationery Office, 1982. £60.

A Catalogue of the United States Library of Congress Collection of Tibetan Literature in Microfiche. By Musashi Tachikawa and others. (Bibliographia Philologica Buddhica. Series Maior, III), pp. xiv, 353. Tokyo, The International Institute for Buddhist Studies, 1983.

Satan's Tragedy and Redemption: Iblīs in Sufi Psychology. By Peter J. Awn. (Studies in the History of Religions (Supplements to Numen), XLIV.) pp. xi, 235. Leiden, E.J. Brill, 1983. Guilders 78.

Honourable Intentions: Talks on the British Empire in South-East Asia Delivered at the Royal Colonial Institute, 1874–1928. Edited by Paul H. Kratoska. pp. x, 407. Kuala Lumpur, Oxford University Press, 1983/1984. £29.50.

Artisans and Guild Life in the Later Ṣafavid Period: Contributions to the Social-Economic History of Persia. By Mehdi Keyvani. (Islamkundliche Untersuchungen, Bd. 65.) pp. [vii], xii, 339. Berlin, Klaus Schwarz Verlag, 1982.

Doctors, Diviners, and Magicians of Ancient China; Biographies of Fang-Shih. By Kenneth J. DeWoskin. (Translations from the Oriental Classics), pp. xiii, 224. New York, Columbia University Press, 1983. US $30.00.

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