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Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society
ISSN: 1356-1863

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Volume 118 - January 1986

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Maritime trade and state development in early Southeast Asia By Kenneth R. Hall. pp. xv, 368, 6 figs., 25 photographs, 9 maps. Honolulu, University of Hawaii Press, 1985. US $14.95 (paperback), US $25.00 (library binding).

Drama as a mode of religious realization: the Vidagdhamādhava of Rupa Gosvāmi. By Donna M. Wulff. (American Academy of Religion, Academy Series No.43.) pp. x, 270. Chico, California, Scholars Press, 1984. $14.95.

Dreams, illusions and other realities. By Wendy Doniger O'Flaherty. pp. xvi, 361. front., 16 pl., Chicago and London, the University of Chicago Press, 1984. £21.25.

Burmese manuscripts Part 2. Compiled by Heinz Braun and Daw Tin Tin Myint, with an introduction by Heinz Bechert. (Verzeichnis der orientalischen Handschriften in Deutschland, Band XXIII, 2.) pp. xvi, 302. Stuttgart, Franz Steiner Verlag Wiesbaden GmbH, 1985. DM 147.

Tales of sex and violence: folklore, sacrifice and danger in the Jaiminiya Brahmaṇa. By Wendy Doniger O'Flaherty. pp. xiv, 145, Chicago and Londdon, The University of Chicago Press, 1985. £15.95.

The Changing of kings; memories of Burma 1937–1949 By Leslie Glass. pp. xiv, 241, 9 pl., 1 map. London, Peter Owen, 1985. £12.50.

Handschriften aus Indonesien (Bali, Java und Sumatra). Beschrieben von Theodore G. Th. Pigeaud und P. Voorhoeve, hrsg. von Dieter George. (Verzeichnis der orientalischen Handschriften in Deutschland, Band XXVIII, 2) pp. xi, 71, 6 pl. Stuttgart, Franz Steiner Verlag Wiesbaden GmbH, 1985. Dm. 64.

Mythologies and philosophies of salvation in the theistic traditions of India. By Klaus K. Klostermaier,. (Editions SR, vol. 5.) pp. xvi, 549. 47 pl. Waterloo, Ontario, Wilfred Laurier University Press for the Canadian Corporation for Studies in Religion, 1984.

A source-book of modern Hinduism. Edited By Glynn Richards. pp. x, 212. London and Dublin, Curzon Press, 1985. £8.50.

A grammar of Acehnese, on the basis of a dialect of north Aceh. By Mark Durie. (Verhandelingen van het koninklijk Insituut voor Tall-, Land-en Volkenkunde, 112) pp. xvi, 278. Dordrecht, Holland and Cinnaminson, U.S.A., Foris Publications, 1985. Dfl. 35.

Moral conduct and authority. The place of adab in South Asian Islam. Edited by Barbara Daly Metcalf. pp. xv, 389. Berkeley etc., University of California Press, 1984. £29.20.

T'ung Shu: the ancient Chinese almanac. Edited and translated by Martin Palmer, with Mak Hin Chung, Kwok Man Ho, and Angela Smith. pp. 240, illus. London, Rider & Co., 1986. £9.95.

Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna. Five Distinguished scholars on the Krishna movement in the West: Harvey Cox, Larry D. Shinn, Thomas J. Hopkins, A. L. Basham, Shrivatsa Goswami. Edited by Steven J. Gelberg. pp. 276, 18. New York, Grove Press Inc., 1983. $7.95.

Manichaeism in the later Roman Empire and medieval China. A historical survey. By Samuel N. C. Lieu, with a foreword by Mary Boyce. pp. xviii, 360, 3 maps. Manchester, Manchester University Press, 1985. £35.00.

Raj Marwar during British paramountcy (a study in problems and politics up to 1923). By P. R. Shah. pp. xvi, 218, xlvi, 6 maps + errata slip Jodphur, Sharda Publishing House, 1982.

The changing role of women in Bengal, 1849–1905. By Meredith Borthwick. pp. xviii, 402, illus, Princeton, N.J., Princeton University Press, 1984. £37.00.

Les peintures murales et les manuscripts de Dunhuang. Colloque franco-chinois organisé par la Fondation Singer-Polignac à Paris, les 21, 22 et 23 février 1983. pp. 151, 28 pl., front., plans + errata slips. Paris, Éditions de la Fondation Singer-Polignac, 1984.

Caste, conflict and ideology: Mahatma Jotirao Phule and low caste protest in nineteenth century Western India. By Rosalind O'Hanlon. (Cambridge South Asian Studies 30) pp. xiv, 326, map, Cambridge etc., Cambridge University Press, 1985. £30.00.

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