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Beatrice Forbes Manz: The rise and rule of Tamerlane, xi, 227 pp. Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989. £27.50.
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Michael Coulson: A critical edition of the Mālatīmādhava. Revised by Roderick Sinclair, lxi, 280 pp. Delhi, etc.: Oxford University Press, 1989. £15.
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Pheroza Godrej and Pauline Rohatgi: Scenic splendours: India through the printed image. 167 pp. London: The British Library; New Delhi, etc.:Arnold Publishers,1989. £25.
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- 05 February 2009, pp. 395-396
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James D. Tracy (ed.): The rise of merchant empires: long-distance trade in the early modern world 1350–1750. xiii, 442 pp. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1990. £35, $44.50
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George Michell: The Penguin guide to the monuments of India, I: Buddhist, Jain, Hindu. 519 pp. New York and London: Viking, 1989. £30. - Philip Da Vies: The Penguin guide to the monuments of India, II: Islamic, Rajput, European. 604 pp. New York and London: Viking, 1989. £30.
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Etienne Lamotte: History of Indian Buddhism: from the origins to the Śaka era. Translated from the French by Sara Webb-Boin under the supervision of Jean Dantinne. (Publications de l’Institut Orientaliste de Louvain, 36.) xxvi, 870 pp., 5 maps, 30 plates. Louvain Paris: Peters Press, 1988. BFr. 2750.
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Tadeusz Skorupski (ed.): The Buddhist Forum. Vol. i: Seminar papers 1987–1988. vi, 121 pp. London: School of Oriental and African Studies, 1989. £6.
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Lynn Bennett: Dangerous wives and sacred sisters: social and symbolic roles of high-caste women in Nepal. xiv, 353 pp. New York and Oxford: Columbia University Press. 1989. £16.
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- 05 February 2009, pp. 397-398
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Hanna Havnevik: Tibetan Buddhist nuns: history, cultural norms and social reality. (Institutt for Sammenlignende Kulturforskning. Serie B: Skrifter, LXXIX.) 251 pp. Oslo: Norwegian University Press, [1990]. (Distributed by OxfordUniversity Press. £25.)
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V. N. Datta: Sati: a historical, social and philosophical enquiry into the Hindu rite of widow burning. xx, 279 pp. New Delhi: Manohar Publications, 1988.
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Saral Jhingran: Aspects of Hindu morality, xvii, 241 pp. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, 1989. Rs. 150.
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Kwang-Chih Chang: The archaeology of ancient China. Fourth edition, revised and enlarged, xxv, 450 pp. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1986. £45, $60 (paper £14.95, $19.95). - K. C. Chang (ed.): Studies of Shang archaeology: selected papers from the International Conference on Shang Civilization, xiv, 325 pp. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, [1986]. £28.50.
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Genevieve Bouchon and Luis Filipe Thomaz (ed.): Voyage dans les deltas du Gange et de l'Irraouaddy. Relation portugaise anonyme (1521). (EHESS. Collection du Centre d'Etudes Portugaises, 1.) 472 pp. 5 foldout charts, 8 loose maps, + corrigenda. Paris: Fondation Calouste Gulbenkian, Centre Culturel Portugais, 1988.
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- 05 February 2009, pp. 399-400
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W. H. McLeod: The Sikhs: history, religion, and society. (The American Council of Learned Societies Lectures on the History of Religions, no. 14.) ix, 161 pp. New York: Columbia University Press, 1989. $29. - W. H. McLeod: Who is a Sikh? The problem of Sikh identity, ix, 140 pp. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989. £19.50.
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Arthur F. Wright: Studies in Chinese Buddhism. Edited by Robert M. Somers. xii, 204 pp. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1990. $30 (paper $20).
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Ann Grodzins Gold: Fruitful journeys: the ways of Rajasthani pilgrims, xviii, 333 pp. Berkeley, Los Angeles and London: University of California Press, 1988.
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Kalpana Bardhan (ed. and tr.): Of women, outcastes, peasants, and rebels: a selection of Bengali short stories. vii, 330 pp. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1990.
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- 05 February 2009, pp. 400-401
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Antonino Forte: Mingtang and Buddhist Utopias in the history of the astronomical clock: the tower, statue and armillary sphere constructed by Empress Wu. (Serie Orientale Roma, Vol. LIX. Publications de l’EFEO, Vol. CXLV.) xiii, 333 pp. Rome: Istituto Italiano per il Medio ed Estremo Oriente; Paris: Ecole Française d’Extrême-Orient, Paris: 1988.
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Laurence Picken (ed.) and others: Music from the Tang Court, Fasc. 4, Fasc. 5. xiv, 136 pp., xiv, 130 pp. Cambridge, etc: Cambridge University Press, 1987, 1990. £40 ($69.50), £45 ($79.50).
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Pascale Dollfus: Lieu de neige et de genévriers: organisation sociale et religieuse des communautés bouddhistes du Ladakh. 282 pp. Paris: CNRS. Fr. 190.
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