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VICTOR A. SHNIRELMAN: The value of the past: myths, identity and politics in Transcaucasia. (Senri Ethnological Studies, 57.) v, 465 pp. Osaka: National Museum of Ethnology, 2001.
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OLEG GRABAR: Mostly miniatures: an introduction to Persian painting. vii, 168 pp. Princeton, NJ and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2000. £17.95.
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WILLEM VOGELSANG: The Afghans. (The Peoples of Asia.) x, 382 pp. Oxford: Blackwell, 2001.
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THOMAS OBERLIES: Pāli: a grammar of the language of the Theravāda Tipitaka, with a concordance to Pischel's Grammatik der Prakrit-Sprachen. (Indian Philology and South Asian Studies, 3.) 385 pp. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2001. Euro128.
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M. A. DHAKY (ed.): Encyclopaedia of Indian temple architecture—North India: beginnings of medieval idiom c. A.D. 900–1000. 2 volumes. I: 426 pp. II: 913 plates. New Delhi: American Institute of Indian Studies, and Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts, 1998. Rs. 5,000.
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- 03 July 2003, pp. 103-105
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GEORGE MICHELL (ed.): Encyclopaedia of Indian temple architecture—South India: Drāvidadēśa, later phase c. A.D. 1289–1798. 2 volumes. I: xxvi, 382 pp. II: 570 plates. New Delhi: American Institute of Indian Studies, 2001. Rs. 5,500.
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M. A. DHAKY and U. S. MOORTI (ed.): The temples in Kumbhāriyā. 186 pp. 244 plates. New Delhi: American Institute of Indian Studies; Ahmedabad: Lalbhai Dalpatbhai Institute of Indology, 2001.
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THOMAS BLOM HANSEN: Wages of violence: naming and identity in postcolonial Bombay. x, 269 pp. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2002. £13.95.
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TRACY PINTCHMAN (ed.): Seeking Mahādevī: constructing the identities of the Hindu Great Goddess. xiii, 254 pp. Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 2001. $21.95.
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KATHLEEN TAYLOR: Sir John Woodroffe, Tantra and Bengal: ‘An Indian soul in a European body’? (SOAS London Studies on South Asia.) xvi, 319 pp. Richmond, Surrey: Curzon Press, 2001. £45.
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LUDO ROCHER (ed.): Jīmūtavāhana's Dāyabhāga. The Hindu law of inheritance in Bengal. (South Asia Research.) xii, 426 pp. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002. £60.
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STUART BLACKBURN: Moral fictions: Tamil folktales in oral tradition. (FF Communications, 278.) 338 pp. Helsinki: Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia/Academia Scientiarum Fennica, 2001.
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SUVIR KAUL (ed.): The partitions of memory: the afterlife of the division of India. x, 301 pp. Delhi: Permanent Black, 2001. £28.95. ATUL KOHLI (ed.): The success of India's democracy. (Contemporary South Asia.) xiv, 298 pp. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. £14.95.
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SUKESHI KAMRA: Bearing witness: partition, independence, end of the Raj. v, 414 pp. Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2002.
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ALLEN KEITH JONES: Politics in Sindh 1907–1940: Muslim identity and the demand for Pakistan. xxii, 214 pp. Karachi: Oxford University Press, 2002. £7.99.
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TEJ K. BHATIA and ASHOK KOUL: Colloquial Urdu: the complete course for beginners. x, 358 pp., two 60 minute cassettes. London and New York: Routledge, 2000. £27.76.
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ROEL STERCKX: The animal and the daemon in early China. (SUNY Series in Chinese Philosophy and Culture.) ix, 375 pp. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2002. $34.95.
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EDWARD HACKER, STEVE MOORE AND LORRAINE PATSCO: I Ching: an annotated bibliography. xvii, 336 pp. New York and London: Routledge, 2002. £55.
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DAVID A. GRAFF: Medieval Chinese warfare, 300–900. (Warfare and History.) x, 288 pp. London and New York: Routledge, 2002. £16.99.
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PAUL ROUZER: Articulated ladies: gender and the male community in early Chinese texts. (Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series, 53.), xiii, 424 pp. Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 2001. £30.95.
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