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Volume 121 - January 1989

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Indo-Tibetan Buddhism: Indian Buddhists and their Tibetan Successors. By David L. Snellgrove. pp. xxiv, 640, 88 pl, 5 maps. London, Serindia Publications and Boston, Shambhala Publications, 1987. Distributed by La Haule Books Ltd., Jersey, C.I. £30.00.

Yantracintāmaṇi of Dāmodara. Critically edited by Hans-Georg Türstig. (Beiträge zur Südasienforschung, Südasien-Institut, Universität Heidelberg, Band 121.) pp. 171, 79 drawings. Stuttgart, Franz Steiner Verlag Wiesbaden GmbH, 1988. DM 46.

Braj: centre of Krishna pilgrimage. By A. W. Entwistle. (Groningen Oriental Studies, Vol. III.) pp. xviii, 554, front., 29 pl., 3 maps (in end pocket). Groningen, Egbert Forsten, 1987.

The new Cambridge history of India I.1. The Portuguese in India. By M. N. Pearson. pp. xx, 178, front., 3 maps. Cambridge etc., Cambridge University Press, 1987. £17.50.

The Cult of Draupadī. 1. Mythologies: from Gingee to Kurukṣetra. By Alf Hiltebeitel. p. xxvii, 487, 34 illus., 5 maps. Chicago and London, Chicago University Press, 1988. £19.95.

L'Asie du Sud à l'époque des grandes découvertes. By Geneviève Bouchon. (Collected Studies Series CS 260.) pp. xii, 334, illus., maps. London Variorum Reprints, 1987. £32.00.

Early Mughal painting: (the Polsky lectures in Indian and Southeast Asian art and Archaeology.) By Milo Cleveland Beach, pp. viii, 164, front., 92 illus., map. Cambridge, Mass, and London, Harvard University Press for the Asia Society, 1987. £23.95.

Advaitāmoda by Vāsudevaśāstri Abhyankar. a study of Advaita and Viśiṣṭāvaita. Translated with a commentary by Michael Comans, foreword by J. W. de Jong. (Sri Garib Dass Oriental Series, No. 80.) pp. lvii, 623. Delhi, Sri Satguru Publications, 1988. Rs. 300.

Atmaswarupam. one's own real nature. By SriAdwayananda (SriK. Padmanabha Menon) pp. 59. Austin, Texas, Advaita Publishers and Chengannur, Kerala, Sri Vidya Samiti, 1988.

The apparatus of empire: awards of ranks, offices and titles to the Mughal nobility (1574–1658). By M. Athar Ali pp. xl, 378, map (on end papers). Aligarh, Centre of Advanced Study in History, Aligarh Muslim University. Delhi, Oxford University Press, 1985. Rs 400.

The Chaupa Singh Rahit-Nama. By W. H. McLeod. pp. 260. Dunedin, University of Otago Press, 1987. NZ$27.23.

The New Cambridge History of India II. 2. Bengal: the British bridgehead. Eastern India 1740–1828. By P. J. Marshall, pp. xv, 195, front, 2 maps. Cambridge etc., Cambridge University Press, 1987. £17.50.

The Asiatic Society of Bengal and the discovery of India's past, 1784–1838. By O. P. Kejariwal. pp. xiv, 293, 1 pl., map. Delhi etc., Oxford University Press, 1988. £12.95.

The lord as guru: Hindi sants in the northern Indian tradition. By Daniel Gold. pp. ix, 256. New York and Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1987. £27.50.

Dacca: a study in urban history and development. By Sharif Uddin Ahmed. (London Studies on South Asia, 4.) pp. xii, 266, 8 pl., 4 maps. London, Curzon Press, 1986. £12.50.

The Coming of the Devi: Adivasi assertion in western India. By David Hardiman. pp. xi, 248, illus., 5 maps. Delhi etc., Oxford University Press, 1987. £13.50.

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