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Volume 88 - April 1956

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Language in Culture. Edited by Harry Hoijer. University of Chicago Press, pp. xi + 286. 1955. 34s.

Indonesian Trade and Society. By J. C. van Leur. W. van Hœve, Ltd., The Hague, Bandung, 1955.

An Unabridged Malay-English Dictionary. By SirR. O. Winstedt, K.B.E., C.M.G., F.B.A, D.Litt. (Oxon) pp. 359. Kelly and Walsh, Ltd., Singapore, 1955. 30 sh.

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Indonesian Sociological Studies. by B. Schrieke. Part I. pp. i–vii + 1–313. W. van Hœve, Ltd., The Hague, Bandung.

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List of Members

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Epigraphia Zeylanica. Being Lithic and Other Inscriptions of Ceylon, edited for the Archæological Survey of Ceylon. By S. Paranavitana. Vol. V, Part I. Printed at the Government Press, Ceylon, 1955. pp. 176, and two pages of Corrigenda. Price Rs. 10. Postage 55 cents. 8½ in. by 11 in.

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JRA volume 88 issue 1-2 Cover and Front matter

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JRA volume 88 issue 1-2 Cover and Back matter

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Secret Minutes of the Dutch Political Council, 1762. Edited and translated by J. H. O. Paulusz. pp. 349. Government Press, Ceylon, 1954.

The Life of Mir Jumla. By Jagadish Narayan Sarkar. With a Foreword by SirJadunath Sarkar. pp. xxvi + 337. Thacker, Spink, and Co., Calcutta, 1951. Rs. 12.

Nānārtharatnamālā of Irugapa Dandādhinātha. Edited by Bellikoth Ramachandra Sharma. Deccan College, Poona, 1954. pp. vi + 279. [Sources of Indo-Aryan Lexicography, 8.]

Nānārthamañjari of Rāghava. Edited by K. V. Krishnamoorthy Sharma. Deccan College, Poona, 1954. pp. viii + 252. [Sources of Indo-Aryan Lexicography, 9.]

A History of Indian Philosophy. By Surindranath Dasgupta. Cambridge University Press, 1955. pp. xii + 204.

Śīlāṅka's Cauppaṇṇamahāpurisacariya: Ein Beitrag zur Kenntnis der Jaina-Universalgeschichte. By von Klaus Bruhn. pp. ix + 153. Hamburg, 1954.

Selections from Unpublished Correspondence of the Judge Magiśtrate and the Judge of Patna, 1790–1857. Edited with an Introduction by K. K. Datta. pp. ii + iii + 422. Patna: Superintendent, Government Printing, Bihar, 1954. Rs. 5.

Report on the Excavations at Nasik and Jorwe (1950–51). By H. D. Sankalia and S. B. Deo. Poona, 1955. pp. xx + 178, 36 plates, 10 maps and plans, 55 figures.

Aśoka, Kaiser und Missionar. By Fritz Kern. Edited by Willibald Kirfel. pp. 208, 4 plates. Bern, Franke Verlag, 1956. Sw. fr. 14.

The Cultural Heritage of Pakistan. Edited by S. M. Ikram and Percival Spear. Oxford University Press. London: Cumberlege, 1956. pp. vii + 204.

Village India: Studies in the Little Community. Edited by McKim Marriott, pp. xviii + 269. University of Chicago Press, 1955.

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